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Number banners have been used to explore issues of time and
motion. Their dynamic qualities are shown to their greatest
extent when they are used in conjunction with cardboard arrows.
Number Banners do not just act as dynamic tools; they have a
personalities of their own. Below is a description of Number
Eight Banner, which was shown alongside the Number Seven Banner
sculpture.
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"Perhaps,
due to its appearence, number banner eight is popular . Numbereight
banner is made of pallete board struts that are damaged.But
perhaps more significantly, the numeral on this tool is more
stylistic than other banner numerals. There are many associations
with the eight numeral; phrases like 'an hour glass figure suggest
a strong human element for number eight. eight is an even number
which also gives a feeling of stability.
This banner is high enough up the number banner scale to make
it the last ever number in the last even number in the single
numeral sequences.
This banner is directly under number nine banner (the final
odd banner).
Eight banner can be neatly divided by two into quarters, halves
and even eighths without using fractions and without stepping
away from the banner sequence."
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Diagrammatic
Number Eight Banner:
Computers
were used to create diagram-style images of the number banners.
Diagrammatic Number Banners were created to embody the physical
nature of the Number Banners.
Similar to Animate
Objects the use of 2D laws are utilised to invoke the
spirit of these objects - with the laws of Orthographic
projection and similar technical drawing styles.
Six views are shown; front, back, left-side, right-side,
top and bottom (six dimensions).
This is a form of orthographic projection, commonly used
to describe objects before they are constructed in a workshop.
This type of drawing describes the entire object and pertains
to representing the real object to the point of standing
in for the real object's absence. |
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