Archinect Archibots

I initially presented these drawings on Archinect, one of the first well traveled design blogs, even before the word blog was in use. They felt appropriate at the site because of the obvious references the images make to communities, architecture and technology.

I was inspired by Umberto Eco’s column that stated that the Macintosh OS was like Catholicism and DOS like Protestantism. And if OSs are similar to religions then are churches really just technology? And what is the most blunt symbol of technology? Robots.

Plans were xeroxed from Terrazzo Number 2, Spring 1989, a publication edited by Barbara Radice.

In 2009 Glen Cummings included Archibot blue lines for his exhibition Second Shift (pdf) at the Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles.

Archinect Shirts

The first series of Archinect shirts were two archibots overprinting the Archinect text—produced and sold in 2005 until 2008. A second series was run on CMYK approximated color Ts with the text overprinting the robots.