Sizegiver

The Standards Show · May 13, 2023 · 1h 12m

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…