Sizegiver
05/13/23 • 72 min
This special episode of the podcast is an in-depth conversation with Corinne Quin, lecturer in design at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Matthew speaks to her about sizegiver - an art and design project which explores the use of standards in an unusual and interesting way.
A sizegiver is an object placed into a photograph to enable judgement of another object’s size or scale. They are mass-produced, designed and standardized objects, which are iconic and familiar, but also commonplace.
Examples of sizegivers include coins, bottle caps, paperclips, matchsticks, coke cans, or golf balls. They create object-object relationships, which communicate scale faster than a ruler, but are are often strange, playful and unusual.
Corinne explains how sizegiving is becoming an international visual shorthand to describe the meaning of images, tell stories and bring together communities.
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This special episode of the podcast is an in-depth conversation with Corinne Quin, lecturer in design at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Matthew speaks to her about sizegiver - an art and design project which explores the use of standards in an unusual and interesting way.
A sizegiver is an object placed into a photograph to enable judgement of another object’s size or scale. They are mass-produced, designed and standardized objects, which are iconic and familiar, but also commonplace.
Examples of sizegivers include coins, bottle caps, paperclips, matchsticks, coke cans, or golf balls. They create object-object relationships, which communicate scale faster than a ruler, but are are often strange, playful and unusual.
Corinne explains how sizegiving is becoming an international visual shorthand to describe the meaning of images, tell stories and bring together communities.
Find out more about some of the content featured in this episode
Department of Design | Goldsmiths
BSI Student Research Programme
Press conference episode | Submit a question
Find and follow The Standards Show on social media
Get in touch with The Standards Show
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts
Subscribe to The Standards Show
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