Essentially, no part of this project is an invention or intellectual property. Every aspect from the insert slider, the diffused Neopixel lights and the laser cut pages has been made/done before. Perhaps less often have these pieces been integrated as I did for this specific Fab Colors book, so the resulting final piece is a creative output of already licensed operations. I would love to see where others take the idea of a backlit book and therefore this project would most accurately be licensed under:
Fab Colors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The drawings and subsequent laser cut files from those drawings are the only part of this project that I might consider putting under:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
As for a business model, this piece resides in the realm of a one off art piece versus a viable business product. I had no intention of designing a thing that could be mass-produced. For the sake of this exercise, if this piece were to be mass-produced, I would leave it as an open source file, which could be downloaded and remade. Perhaps others could solve the issue with the hinged spine that I have yet to resolve.
In 2011 I published a book through random house that told the story of a little girl and a bee from two different perspectives. When showing ideas for the layout of the book to the art director, I very much wanted it to be a pop-up or flip book in which the two stories meet in the middle and the reader can start the other half by physically manipulating the book, turning it around or upside down to expose the second story. I was told that novelty books such as that were way too much of a risk for a publishing house, expensive to produce and easy for kids to break…ultimately not an option. If that was the case for that book, I can only imagine what would be said about this book.
My final project is by no means a marketable idea. It would be a labor of love for anyone who undertook it’s printing, construction and assembly.
Fab Colors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
The drawings and subsequent laser cut files from those drawings are the only part of this project that I might consider putting under:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
As for a business model, this piece resides in the realm of a one off art piece versus a viable business product. I had no intention of designing a thing that could be mass-produced. For the sake of this exercise, if this piece were to be mass-produced, I would leave it as an open source file, which could be downloaded and remade. Perhaps others could solve the issue with the hinged spine that I have yet to resolve.
In 2011 I published a book through random house that told the story of a little girl and a bee from two different perspectives. When showing ideas for the layout of the book to the art director, I very much wanted it to be a pop-up or flip book in which the two stories meet in the middle and the reader can start the other half by physically manipulating the book, turning it around or upside down to expose the second story. I was told that novelty books such as that were way too much of a risk for a publishing house, expensive to produce and easy for kids to break…ultimately not an option. If that was the case for that book, I can only imagine what would be said about this book.
My final project is by no means a marketable idea. It would be a labor of love for anyone who undertook it’s printing, construction and assembly.
This work is based on the digital fabrication concepts taught through FabAcademy out of MIT at the AS220 campus