thehumanprinter and the Value of Sweat

I’ve read an overwhelming number of posts about something called “thehumanprinter” this week.

As described by PSFK (the last post I read on the subject):

Adding an element of handcrafting to the mechanical process of printing, thehumanprinter is a group of people that translate and hand-render images in the style of a digital printer.

In the same vein as my Print/Vinyl post, this is another fascinating example of taking something easily accessible, and usually free, in its digital form – a photo – and turning it into something people will pay to own.

See, as digital photos approach a price a free, they lose a certain value as a collectors item, or something others might pay to possess.  But take that same image and recreate it through a painstaking human process with a resulting one-of-a-kind object and suddenly you have a potential business model.

Lot’s of lessons here, people, if you’re paying attention.

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