Fingerprint Art
If the everyday pictures of sunsets and flying ducks isn’t to your taste, you can always put your fingerprints on display in your home. And you don’t have to get arrested. DNA 11, the creators of DNA artwork, have announced a second-generation product of fingerprint art.
DNA 11′s first designs combined science and art by photographing their customers’ DNA, enlarging it, and printing it on high-quality canvas. These pieces were so popular that founders, Salamunovic and Nazim Ahmed, have expanded their product line.
These new personalized images are based on the customer’s own fingerprints; customers can select one fingerprint or all five.
“We are so excited about this,” Adrian Salamunovic, co-founder, DNA 11, said. “We have taken our progressive art to the next level and are creating personal art portraits for people.”
This is how the process works: Customers place their orders on DNA 11′s Website (www.dna11.com), where they select their chosen size and custom colour. DNA 11 sends a fingerprint collection kit including all essentials; and the kit is returned to DNA 11 studios.
Once the image(s) is received, DNA 11 scans the print(s) with a high-resolution scanner. That print is then manually adjusted to clearly illustrate each fingerprint ridge; images(s) can be magnified up 4,000 percent.
The artwork is affordable and offers a wide range of prices; framing is an option. There are 15 colour schemes categorized into three series: Classics, Earth, and Pop.
Another feature offered by the company is its ColorMatch technology, whereby customers can customize foregrounds and backgrounds to match their environment instead of the other way around.
“We have experienced such success with DNA art that we are confident our new product will also become one of the hottest products in the home decor market,” explained Ahmed.
March 1st, 2007 at 10:36 am
Hi, I know my opinion probably doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but I thought I would leave a comment anyway. I really like this peice of artwork, at the moment I am doing a project at school called “Me, Myelf and I” – I am looking into identity and hidden identity and want to construct something like this for my final peice. I think it’s a very interesting subject – identity. I mean, what is it?
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 am
Yasmin,
Everyone’s opinion matters.
Identity is how other people know you. That’s my amateur philosopher’s answer! Somehow I don’t think I’m a match for Aristotle and Plato.
Good luck with your project.