For her entry to this year’s RCA Graduate Final Show, Product Design student Lina Patsiou presented ‘The Sprayer’.

The work is an exploration of colour and chance that fuses modern craftsmanship with the spirit of laboratory-based investigation. Developed around Chromatography, a scientific technique designed to separate biological pigments from one another, the Sprayer is an apparatus that uses an algorithm to Jet-stream bursts of colour onto a vase. The apparatus is connected to a laptop which control the different colourful sprays depending on the words or sentences inputted. Visitors can create a sentence on the laptop, which is then translated into a visual representation on the vase.

Using the same precision and clinical detachment to design as would be expected from a real lab experiment, in action the apparatus knows no rhyme or reason, and produces work that is entirely reliant on complex mathematical sequences.

With semblance to prior projects we have covered, namely RGB Colourspace Atlas and Audible Colour, this random approach to design affords the work a sense of spontaneity, and peaks our interest for its inventive use of Chromo.