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Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. K.Olin Tribu is a French company specializing in the creation of porcelain sculptures that blend traditional craftsmanship with contemporary art. Established in 2009 by Matthieu Dutheil, a passionate collector of art toys, and a porcelain manufacturer, the company is based in Limoges, France—a region renowned for its high-quality porcelain production. K.Olin Tribu offers an alternative to vinyl figurines by producing sculptures made and decorated in Limoges, bearing the official “Porcelaine de Limoges” label. The company collaborates with graphic designers, illustrators, toy designers, and artists from graffiti, street art, and contemporary art scenes. I was born in Milan the 30th of May 1976. I approached, for the first time, to the world art at the beginning of 1990s. The passion for graphic arts started in these years because I was really fascinated from the graphic of skate decks and the cover of music CD of metal bands. From this passion I started to think about how reproduce this kind of artwork. I ever had a computer in my home, from the times of the Commodore Vic20, and I kept thinking that my computer could be useful in this way. I mean that I can use the computer to make art and not only to play! Now I work as a freelance in my hometown, Portoscuso, Sardinia-Italy for small, medium and big agencies. Read more: http://burdu976.com/?page_id=16#ixzz24C60Z4Ws