Celebrating 5
years of successful business and original
research Ore.e Ref. is glad to offer this
complementary collection on imagery and sounds
for you personal enjoyment:
These
items
are
intended
to
be
used
in your mobile phones as ringtones and as
wallpapers or screen-savers on your PDA's /
personal computers.
The artwork is based on Edward Linley
Sambournes "The Rhodes Colossus:
Caricature of Cecil
John Rhodes" which was published 10
December 1892 in "Punch" (British weekly
magazine of humour and satire 1841-1992/2002)
after Mr. Rhodes announced plans for a telegraph
line and railroad from Cape Town to Cairo.
The colossal figure of Mr. Rhodes was removed by
Ore.e Ref. to create a remake drawing "Africa
without Cecil John Rhodes" (2010). Using this
remake as basis we placed mr. Rhodes back as a
ghostly figure fading in and out, inside a
"morse-code-limbo". Videos are packaged
according to HTML5 standards. The .gif image is
optimized for low bandwidth internet
connections. A cornerstone of Ore.e Ref. is that
our online presence is optimized for low
bandwidths so that we may reach craftspeople in
the periphery of the web.
It has been a jolly ride and we are actively
promoting post-industrial design solutions from
printmaking
tools to educational
services. At the time of this writing the
products of Ore.e Ref. are being show in
exhibitions across Finland and plans for new
design are on their way.