Pixel Roller

The “PixelRoller” project is a collabortive investigation into a new creative tool between Stuart Wood MA (RCA) Interaction Design and Florian Ortkrass MA (RCA) Design Products.

PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the ergonomics of a paintroller, that lets you create the images by your own hand.

Checkout the official website of Random Internation for further details about Pixel Roller and other interesting projects.
http://www.random-international.squarespace.com/

RCA graduates Flo Ortkrass, Stuart Wood (both 2005) and Hannes Koch (2004) have operated as rAndom international since it was born on a hill in Egham (Surrey) in 2002. While gaining experience at Audi Design, the BBC, Philips Design, Pearson Lloyd, Metadesign and artist Olafur Eliasson, we have continously worked on both freelance as well as self-initiated projects.

The latter include Wallpaper clock and Instant Labelling Tape in 2004, and last years PixelRoller projects and the complementing PixelTape. Among rAndom collaborations are the Sunlight Table (with Anab Nain, 2005) and the Split68 series of lights (with Caroline Noordijk, 2005/06), which is currently on show at the Design Museums Designmart exhibition.

rAndom international works in a studio in Acre Lane in Brixton, south London. Hannes currently teaches together with Gabi Klasmer Platform 8 at the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art. Stuart and Flo are Research Associates at the RCA’s Innovation Unit and develop the Pixelroller there. Phil by the way, who helped bringing rAndom up, now teaches design in a school down here in Brixton.