Welcome to my webpages. The QR-tag you scanned has led you to this page which is in English. The rest of my site is still in Dutch, but to be able to see my other works just click on "Foto galerij" in the bar at the top of the page. A sub-menu will appear. The top one is a link to my most recent works, the 2nd shows some pictures of me while I am glassblowing, the 3rd shows some blown work, the 4th shows fused plates, the 5th are glassworks which can be hung (either on a wall, or in front of a window), the 6th shows casted glassworks and the final shows some "non-glass" works.
Some background information about the work "Art @ !? "
Last year we organized our first ASML art route. During one of the committee meetings we discussed about a logo for our art route. With 7 creative people in the committee there were a lot of idea's, one being to make some "art letters" and then combine them with the new ASML logo.
We ran out of time in the end (it is amazing how much work is involved in organizing the route) so I did not finish it. Thinking about this year’s art route I thought it would be a good idea to finish the work and now use it not as the official logo, but just as an art-work.
We ran out of time in the end (it is amazing how much work is involved in organizing the route) so I did not finish it. Thinking about this year’s art route I thought it would be a good idea to finish the work and now use it not as the official logo, but just as an art-work.
What is in a logo?
When the new logo was introduced a lot of people were complaining about the fact that our wafer marker was gone. To "revitalize" this wafer marker I even skipped the letters ASML and only used the old logo. I think that almost everybody will know what the art-work is about.
Materials used
The A is in ceramics, the blue color is a combination of two glazes, which give it, together with the rough surface, a sturdy character (Unfortunately the A was broken during transport (luckily I did it myself), so I had to glue it together.)
The R is made of fused glass, the R is the .2 version. On the original one I tried to shortcut the production process (like we try to optimize everything at ASML) by using the same heating cycle for both the glass and the ceramic A, but it had some stains on the glass, this must have come from glazing material of the ceramics. So the lesson learned is that optimizing one aspect can give unwanted consequences on another aspect. Also the R has fallen down (again my own mistake), but where the A was in only 2 pieces, the R was shattered beyond repair. Since the work was to be used during the official opening of the art route 2014 I had to rush to get it made. The cutting of the glass went smoothly, but I had to reduce the cooling down time, this resulted in as repairable crack, but you can still see it.
The T is made from multiple layers of paper, on which I used diluted acrylic paint.
The @ is made of wood, I tried to make it out of a piece of a tree trunc, but that cracked, so the workaround was to use laminated wood.
For the marker I have tried 5 different white's. I aimed for the minimal contrast between the white of the marker and the white of the background, this because in our system we can also detect the marker after a lot of processing.
The !? in the title comes from a chess annotation and is used to mark a "interesting or risky move" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_annotation_symbols
The R is made of fused glass, the R is the .2 version. On the original one I tried to shortcut the production process (like we try to optimize everything at ASML) by using the same heating cycle for both the glass and the ceramic A, but it had some stains on the glass, this must have come from glazing material of the ceramics. So the lesson learned is that optimizing one aspect can give unwanted consequences on another aspect. Also the R has fallen down (again my own mistake), but where the A was in only 2 pieces, the R was shattered beyond repair. Since the work was to be used during the official opening of the art route 2014 I had to rush to get it made. The cutting of the glass went smoothly, but I had to reduce the cooling down time, this resulted in as repairable crack, but you can still see it.
The T is made from multiple layers of paper, on which I used diluted acrylic paint.
The @ is made of wood, I tried to make it out of a piece of a tree trunc, but that cracked, so the workaround was to use laminated wood.
For the marker I have tried 5 different white's. I aimed for the minimal contrast between the white of the marker and the white of the background, this because in our system we can also detect the marker after a lot of processing.
The !? in the title comes from a chess annotation and is used to mark a "interesting or risky move" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_annotation_symbols
Lessons learned
In the end the whole project had a lot of similarities with the way we work. We start with a brilliant idea, but getting there is not always straight forward, but with some rework and perseverance we get to a finished and functioning product, in this case a work of art
