Paint and Press: “Pirate Printer” Turns Street Graphics into Clothing Patterns
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That is, if the market is big enough, I could see upgrading the process to employ more technical methods to scan the streetwork and using the captured data to silkscreen textiles.
Of course, part of the attraction of this is also that it's a very manual/analog process, so maybe different products for each market.
In any case, this is a very cool way to document the details of urban infrastructure.
EDIT: add missing "way" to last sentence.
If not it means you're being a jerk painting over stuff that at worst are historic or architecturally important pieces and at best just defacing our landscape.
And it's not defacing anything that could be defaced, it's mostly steel that hundreds of people step on every day.
Even if the paint didn't wash away (it does), a couple of orange manhole covers are hardly a big deal.