Pixelated Portrait
Todd Knopke
As early as 1999, artist Todd Knopke was producing pixelated versions of things: Skulls and whatnot, but also – of course – the inevitable self-portrait.
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Lo-Res Typography
Zuzana Licko/ Emigre
The brilliant minds at Emigre release these in 2001: “The Lo-Res family of fonts is a synthesis of pixelated designs, including Emigre’s earlier coarse resolution fonts, as well as bitmap representations of Base 9. It replaces the preexisting families and groups these related bitmap designs under one family name in the font menu.”
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Chair_One
Konstantin Grcic
2004′s Chair_ONE is “constructed just like a football: a number of flat planes assembled at angles to each other, creating the three-dimensional form.”
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Low Res Chair
Oooms
They made this in 2005. From their site: “[…] it is the computer, compelled by necessity, that makes the decisions about what is taken out and what is left. If we apply this logic to existing products, like here to the sideview of an Eames chair, we see that certain aspects of the product come to the front, while others recede.”
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Pre-pixelated clothing for reality TV
Ironic Sans
“The pixelation process seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through for something that could have been avoided with a little pre-planning” says David, at IronicSans. Kindly hoping to save reality TV producers from the trouble of needing to blur out the logos on contestants’ clothing, in 2006 they made a line of pre-pixelated clothing for reality TV, and sold it on Cafepress.
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We Are The Strange
M Dot Strange
An independent film produced by M Dot Strange, We Are The Strange uses stop motion, CG artwork, and greenscreen effects and stands as the ne plus ultra of pixelation on the big screen. The film was released on Youtube, gaining a big fat audience that led to its festival premiere on January 19, 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Pixelated jewelry
Mike & Maaike
In 2007 California-based Mike & Maaike have produced a line of jewelry they dub ‘Stolen Jewels’. From their site: “Using Google Image Search, we browsed through some of the most expensive and often famous jewelry in the world, the low-res images we found were stolen, doctored, then transferred to leather, creating a tangible new incarnation.”
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Pixelated Sofa
Cristian Zuzunaga
Spanish-born Zuzunaga uses pixels to “produce unique colorful landscapes”. His “graphic patterns derive from zooming in on images he has taken of cityscapes until the image is broken down into these infentisimal geometric shapes”. In 2008 he made a pixelated sofa, and hasn’t stopped since.
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Lo Res Shoe
Lo Res Project by United Nude
Back in 2008, design group United Nude (helmed by the architect Rem D Koolhaas) started messing around with the 3D scanner in their studio. The first product they brought to market were these amazing Lo Res shoes (which I happily own). Now they’re attacking other objects: Amongst others, a Lamborghini, a wine glass, and a chair.
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Invisible Shoes
Andreia Chaves
Thanks to Susan Brennan, these awesome faceted ‘low-res’ (but serving an even cooler purpose) shoes, from Andreia Chaves in S. America.
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Halloween Costume
Eric Terstroete
Testroete recreated his own face and head, wore it for Halloween in 2009, and – judging by the amount of reposts – everybody on the internet was most impressed.
This is Awesome!