An Artist Printed the Complete RGB Colorspace Into Books and it Looks Amazing
Feb 26, 2016
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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New York based American artist, Tauba Auerbach has created a three volume set of hardback books, as 8x8x8 inch cubes, in a project entitled the “RGB Colorspace Atlas“.
Each volume contains 3632 pages, and represents a look through the colour scheme of each of the three different colour channels; Red, Green and Blue.
While it must’ve been a bit of a nightmare for the printer, these digital offset printed books create a very colorful reference volume of all colours of the RGB spectrum.
Red
Green
Blue
The special binding was co-designed by the artist herself in collaboration with Daniel E. Kelm, and printed at Wide Awake Garage.
While this project was completed a little while ago now, I’ve still not seen copies floating around on Amazon.
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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10 responses to “An Artist Printed the Complete RGB Colorspace Into Books and it Looks Amazing”
nice waste of paper
Careful, some might choose to say the same about any photographs you print. :)
I only ever printed a photograph of mine once, and it hangs on my wall.
Well why did you waste that paper, then?
Depriving the world of a masterpiece. A pity.
I only have one question…why?
It’s an art piece.
A book, eh
… the premise of the book look’s interesting, a real page-turner?
I was hoping for a fanciful illusion, like a flip book where the colors morph and writhe across the pages as they slip past your thumb, that would make the book concept a worthwhile artistic endeavor, in my view. Alas, the transformation is so subtle as to be unnoticed, leaving the connoisseur with three cubes of colored paper. I think this fails in that it is a normal human expectation for the contents of a book to be more insightful and entertaining than its cover, hence the cliché.
This is beautiful!