ATH (Athens) Pin
ATH (Athens) Pin
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This is a single, small (0.75" diameter) yellow enamel pin with a geometric design. It represents the Athens International Airport (ATH). It's one of 494 other airport pins, which are algorithmic artwork by Aarati Akkapeddi. These pins appear in (and were commissioned for) the iOS and Android app called Flight Simulator, created by Laurel Schwulst and Soft (2019).
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Flight Simulator is a collaboration between Laurel Schwulst and Soft. It is an app for iOS and Android and an "ode to airplane mode." Users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.
Aarati Akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. They explain: "I created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."
Pins are algorithmic artwork by Aarati Akkapeddi, 2018
This enamel version was selected & produced by Laurel Schwulst, 2022
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This is a single, small (0.75" diameter) yellow enamel pin with a geometric design. It represents the Athens International Airport (ATH). It's one of 494 other airport pins, which are algorithmic artwork by Aarati Akkapeddi. These pins appear in (and were commissioned for) the iOS and Android app called Flight Simulator, created by Laurel Schwulst and Soft (2019).
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More info:
Flight Simulator is a collaboration between Laurel Schwulst and Soft. It is an app for iOS and Android and an "ode to airplane mode." Users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited.
Aarati Akkapeddi was commissioned for the pin designs. They explain: "I created code to generate 500 pin designs based on data around the airports such as climate, timezone, number of routes, and altitude. the shape of the pins are according to the altitude (the spikier the higher), the color is a combination of different aspects of the climate, the bubbles on the outer edge symbolize the number of routes, and the size of the center bubble represents the timezone."
Pins are algorithmic artwork by Aarati Akkapeddi, 2018
This enamel version was selected & produced by Laurel Schwulst, 2022
