Lilly Saniel-Banrey

Designer of many things. Sowing joy and wellbeing into the details of everyday life. Currently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. See a full scope of work including architecture, graphics, objects, and documents. Or just see my current projects.

Imprints + Impressions


2023
Siteless

Harvard Graduate School of Design
Course led by Andrew Witt Using botanist Anna Atkin's first book of cyanotype impressions (dated 1843), Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, as an initial dataset, hybrid images were created exploring multiple scales of urbanism. These images were trained to retain the "yves klein blue" look of the data set while incorporating artist mediums of lithograph and cartography styles such as cadastral maps to transform the images to proto-urbanity. The final image seeks to blur boundaries between ecological, artistic, and architectural representation of urban conditions while retaining the figure-ground quality of Atkin's groundbreaking prints.


Using the Runway AI’s “Infinite Image” tool, a networked image was created showing the gentle balance between figure and ground. The blue cyanotupe “default” in tandem with fluid projections eschew reading of a traceable ground condition.


“lithograph print, yves klein urban aerial cadastral map”
“yves kleinvery dense urban aerial view tall buildings white cut outs”
“yves klein urban aerial suburban houses dense”



Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, Anna Atkins, 1843