I have a random question that has been bugging me for some time... is there a guild-name (or CV) for the job of spreading canvas across a frame? A barrel/cask maker is called a cooper, a cordwainer makes shoes, a cobbler repairs them, a wheelwright makes wooden wheels, a weaver makes cloth.
Thru Shapeways, I produce items that look more or less like the image on the left. I'm just a guy making canvases. To me, the true "artist" is the person who can take random blobs of colored acrylic and turn my 'canvas' into the object on the right.
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To also cross-topics with other popular threads at the moment, if I purchase and photograph a print of my 3d design, it is still going to look fundamentally like the item on the left. That is the true "product" that Shapeways will ship. I can see why Shapeways is working on changing the renders,etc. It's not just to present a "better quality picture", but it is also the concept that random shoppers that have zero clue about 3dp will come here, they see the picture on the right, and assume that they are going to receive that in the box. At the same time, it's a bit dis-ingenuous for me to present the image on the right because it's not MY work. I made the thing on the left, and StonyCantPaint
(tm). In this case, my good friend John Kellet painted and made decals for the finished object you see on the right.
What's interesting is that the R/C Model Aircraft aficionados have dealt with this by creating terms such as RTF, ARTF, and Kit. (google it)
In the one-click world of instantaneous shopping, Shapeways has to be able to communicate the value proposition of what a buyer is going to actually receive (effectively a piece of canvas on the left), versus the work of art on the right.
There may not be such a word for a person whose job it is to make canvas frames, but it occurs to me that there might have been such a job name at one time. Any ideas?