The Hole-y Portrait

Posted August 23, 2007
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Hole Portrait

Give a man punched holes, and he’d file it in a folder. But give him a hole puncher (that can punch different sizes, please), and - voila - he can churn out magnificent art piece! Discovered over at NOTCOT:

Steven Nicholson is a 2yr student at Plymouth university in the United Kingdom studying Graphic communications with typography. And apparently he is a genius with a hole punch? Check out this self portrait using 10 different sized single hole punches on a a1 piece of paper that he just sent over. Can you imagine the patience?

All I can say is WOW. This work just makes anyone else with a hole-puncher (What? You only use it for document archiving?!) look really boring and uncreative.

3 Comments so far

  1. terri on August 23, 2007

    I love his work. It is very creative and now I know what I can do with a hole-puncher.

    Terri

  2. Gems Sty on August 23, 2007

    Hi Terri,

    Yup, just a hole puncher and immense patience! The work reminds me of newspaper prints too - the dots on the paper are like the ink dots newspaper (if you look closely enough - except that they’re in the negative (cut-out).

  3. Steven Nicholson on August 29, 2007

    Hi i hope you enjoy my work. If you want a piece of your own email me on steven.nicholson3@students.plymouth.ac.uk

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