mark pernice + christian hanson: photo booth mask

Um, that's pretty terrifying.

I read the description, but tell me WHY again?

Adam   04.25.10

To answer Adam. Since this post refers to Mark Pierce as a "designer" you were probably mistaken into thinking he is a product designer. I browsed his website and I would rather say he is an artist... at this point there's no WHY needed. It's just art, it has no function but being art.
(And I like it)

Randy   04.25.10

horrendous.

pedro   04.26.10

Why is it 'horrendous' Pedro, do tell.

Pete   04.26.10

Cheap adaptation of Ron Mueck.

jim   04.26.10

cool idea though

jim   04.26.10

Ok, since this was sent twice to my email, in two different Designboom newsletters, I´m sure you want us to coment, I wasn´t going to coment, but then again, was a bit "meh" about this...

But since it came back, ok, here´s my coment:

Frankly, calling "designer" to a guy that does a mask of a deformed picture seems rather boring and cheap.
Also, a self-promotional project... Hum ok, I guess it´s a personal choice, which is ok with me, but please, do call yourself an artist, not a designer, design is so much more then a mask coming from a deformed picture, really.
Seems like everybody wants to be called a designer these days, before, being a fashion stylist, or an arquitect, was so fashionable, now everybody is either a designer, or a fashion designer, or a building designer, food designer, garbish designer or even a designer designer, this text kinda confirms it...

To me this project, if it´s made by a designer, it´s pretty horrendous and I see nothing that justifies it, pretty much reminds me of some projects I saw in my university years, they were different, but they didn´t called much attention, i guess instead of signing as a student, they shloud´ve signed as... "designer".

Don´t get me wrong, it´s ok to do any kinda of project, hell, I do them too! But don´t call yourself a designer, please.

Thanks.

The   04.26.10

'The', but he IS a designer. maybe he acted more as an art director on this project, but he's a designer.

fudgey   04.26.10

uups we picked this article for our sunday newsletter and it went automatically in the monday daily one too.
sorry for that.

andy/designboom.com   04.26.10

Fudgey, being a designer or an artist or a wine taster, to me it´s not the education and/or the title he gain by it, it´s what he does, and to me this guy is not a designer, he is pretty much an artist, just like a sculpture and a painter, he does one time items that have not direct use or inovation to society except the one that our brain chooses to.

To me something that is a "design", must have a proper function and/or an inovation, and most of what i saw on he´s site have none of these two.

One thing is for sure, he nailed the objective, it was a self-promotional project, which the objective is to make us talk about him, which we are, and good or bad, it´s publicity...

The   04.26.10

YAHOOOOOOOOO

I like it so much! wow wow wow
I would like to make a set of different masks

Natik   04.26.10

Discussing who the hell do you think he is?
Does everything need to be profound?
It's funny.

H.Friedman   04.26.10

The, stop Your bla bla bla. You take it too seriously. According to ancient greeks' understanding of art You shouldnt discuss artwork, You shouldnt even enjoy it. Just accept it by Your eyes and shut up at last.

again Natik   04.26.10

Design must be functional or innovative? And design that is not is 'art'? Those are extremely trite and narrow definitions of very broad terms and disciplines.

RubberNecking   04.26.10

Bah! Thanks for the Pop-Critique 'The' but to me you seem a little self-aggrandizing in your posts. Show us some work if you can do better.

Prince   04.26.10

haaaahhh thats sweet

corey james   04.27.10

A designer is someone who designs things for a living. All artists are designers, but not all designers are artists.

This man is most definitely a designer and an artist.

Also, The, you say artists create things "...that have not direct use or inovation to society except the one that our brain chooses to."

It would seem to me then, that it is the fault of the individual in possession of said brain that any piece of artwork lacks use or innovation.

Just because one cannot see the innovation does not mean it's not there.

And to be completely honest The, you sound like someone who thinks they know a lot about art, but doesn't know very much at all.

Scott   04.27.10

Also, I like this a lot. The most important (imo) aspect of being a designer is thinking of yourself as a brand, and building your identity in order to get where you want to go. This most definitely does this.

If prints of these photos were sent to agencies with a nicely designed, humorous body copy about himself on the reverse, that could be a very effective way to get a job. Or simply show up somewhere in the mask.

Nice job, and awesome project.

Scott   04.27.10

Thanks Scott, in the other post I only read BLA-BLA-BLA-BLA-BLA

lotus   05.01.10

why would anyone want to make something so grotesque... There is so much uglyness in the world , why produce more???

zana   05.03.10