Sizegiver

<p>This special episode of the podcast is an in-depth conversation with Corinne Quin, lecturer in design at Goldsmiths – University of London.</p><p>Matthew speaks to her about sizegiver - an art and design project which explores the use of standards in an unusual and interesting way.</p><p>A sizegiver is an object placed into a photograph to enable judgement of another object’s size or scale. They are mass-produced, designed and standardized objects, which are iconic and familiar, but also commonplace.</p><p>Examples of sizegivers include coins, bottle caps, paperclips, matchsticks, coke cans, or golf balls. They create object-object relationships, which communicate scale faster than a ruler, but are are often strange, playful and unusual. </p><p>Corinne explains how sizegiving is becoming an international visual shorthand to describe the meaning of images, tell stories and bring communities together.</p><p><strong>Find out more</strong></p><p><a href="https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29051/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sizegiver</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sizegiver/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram @sizegiver </a></p><p><a href="https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Department of Design | Goldsmiths</a></p><p><a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/44312.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ISO 7304 | Boiling pasta</a></p><p><a href="http://www.bsigroup.com/srp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BSI Student Research Programme</a></p><p><a href="https://www.speakpipe.com/TheStandardsShow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Press conference episode | Submit a question</a></p><p><strong>Social media</strong></p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fstandardsshow&amp;data=05%7C01%7CMatthew.Chiles%40bsigroup.com%7Cffa119ed20f24738a0b808db4b093447%7C54946ffc68d34955ac70dca726d445b4%7C0%7C0%7C638186275123514750%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJW