foil – Materials in Motion

It’s MECANORMA!

An attentive reader recognised the brand of the previous post as MECANORMA™, a French brand known for their dry transfer lettering, but less known for their self-adhesive foils. And they made normatape® : a smooth uniform self adhesive line on a roll! It almost makes you regret we now have Adobe Illustrator.

Aafke October 19, 2017 October 20, 2017 Materials brands / foil / material / mecanorma / plastic

Recognise this brand?

Today we found a fraction of a brand logo and a partial batch number on one of the self-adhesive films stuck on a cel. We found this beautiful color wheel between miscellaneous artwork by Gerrit van Dijk (1938 – 2012). It came without any context in a blank brown envelop. Luckily, the stripes in red, white …

Aafke August 17, 2017 October 21, 2017 Animation Artwork / Conservation / Materials animation artwork / cel / foil / Gerrit van Dijk / plastic