Patent ID: 8669325
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: B41M,B44C,B44D,B44F,C08K,G03C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for making a fine-artist's image-making canvas support medium as a new reinvented version of the conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, wherein the reinvented image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of art, design or architecture made therewith, thereupon or therefrom, which method comprises: making the image support using at least one conductive polymer and at least one additional ingredient in a form that is woven, non-woven and/or a textile, with means of having and using energy from a source that is part of it or separate from it, so that the work has distinct edges or boundaries, and so that the work has means for showing a two or three-dimensional artwork, picture or design that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, and also making the work as or developing it into an aesthetic work with a conductive polymer that: is capable of conducting electricity that flows or is non-static, emits light, and/or is in a device, so that this conductive polymer is separate from any photographic film or paper that might also be part of the work, with at least one additional ingredients that provides or enhances support, transparency or translucency of the work; and creating or developing at least one artwork, design or pictorial element on or with the aesthetic work that can be seen from one or more sides or angles, creating a visible overall aesthetic, and making the work so that it has a visible purpose for visual observation or display, integrating all of the aesthetic work's elements visibly into the work as one whole, and creating the aesthetic work as or developing it into two or three-dimensional art wherein: the aesthetic work is free of being a purely commercial or informational, and the aesthetic work is free of a computer, or it has a computer that serves the purpose described in this claim and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional computer and free of a conductive polymer OLED touch screen, and the aesthetic work is either free of a camera, or it has a part that is a camera that is subsidiary or that is subordinate in proportion to the visible work as a whole or hidden from view; and the aesthetic work is free of any e-material device; it has conductive polymer separate from its e-material device; or it has an e-material device with its conductive polymer part of it and the aesthetic work is fine art, it is architecture, or it is a work of design for viewing or display apart from being worn directly upon the human body as jewelry design, clothing design or watch design; and the aesthetic work is other than a conventional phone, personal digital assistant device or portable media player device and if the aesthetic work's at least one ingredient and its form are both opaque: (a) most or all of the aesthetic work's utilitarian elements including any wiring, batteries, switches and utilitarian mount parts are integrated into the visible aesthetic of the work as a whole by being hidden from view and/or by being made entirely or predominantly visually unobvious or unapparent to viewers looking at the whole work; and (b) the aesthetic work is: pictorial; a sculpture, a mural, a kinetic work, a mobile, an openwork art form, furniture, jewelry, table cloth or runner, with one or more shades, shutters, window treatments or placemats, fashion design, a fashion accessory, a costume, a stage set, a partition, stairs, a door, a wall, a ceiling, a floor, a case, a container, interior design, architecture, a work with a visible element indicating its religious or spiritual function, a work of fine art for visual observation that is free or nearly free of utilitarian function, or a book; it has means of display as art from, on or in the ceiling or an overhead structure; it shows a figure, an animal, a still life, landscape, nature, the sky, a part or aspect of any of these, subject matter that is not physically present, drawing, collage, pattern, a visual effect resembling that in an art by a well-established artist, or a combination of these.