Press kit
What you are looking at
Fahz is a vase generated from photographs of people in profile. The profile becomes the vase’s own outline. One face, or as many as six. No two are ever the same, because no two faces are.
Every file in this kit, described. Click a thumbnail or a filename to open the full-resolution original.
Contact: nick@fahzface.com · fahzface.com
29 files. Assembled 31 August 2026.
Product, 2026
The vase as it is now, rendered. One fixed camera and one fixed lighting rig throughout. The three inch is modelled at true physical scale, so it appears smaller in frame. Size is never conveyed by reframing.
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The five inch, four faces, in matte black on a light ground.
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The same object at three inches. Shown at its true size relative to the five inch.
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Both sizes together on a light ground. The difference between them is the real one.
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The five inch, white on black.
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The three inch, white on black.
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Both sizes together on black.
The five inch turning. A quarter turn bare, then each of the four profiles fades in as it comes square to the camera. Silent, seamless, twenty-four seconds, about twelve to a turn.
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A single frame from the loop, with faces arriving.
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The family vase, filmed. One full turn, each profile arriving square to the camera. Silent, seamless, about twenty seconds.
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The same turn, filmed vertical. Silent, seamless, about twenty seconds.
Photographs, 2026
Shot 31 August 2026.
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The printed card and the phone showing the vase's online twin, vertical.
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The card and the twin, close.
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The black vase, its card and its twin together.
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One vase in black, vertical.
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The same vase in white, vertical.
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The same vase in black, horizontal.
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The same vase in white, horizontal.
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One vase held, one behind it. The profile reads from the side and the hand gives the scale.
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A pair on a kitchen table, in use rather than in a studio.
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Nicholas Desbiens, architect and computational designer, who wrote the program that generates the vases. Held close to the camera.
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The same sitting, seated, the vase held out at eye level. Room to the right of the frame for type.
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The same sitting, smiling, the vase held low.
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The close frame again, on a dark ground, for layouts that run black.
Archive, 2015 to 2018
From the original run. More than a thousand vases were made in this period, every one generated from somebody’s photograph and different from every other. Same terms as everything else here.
How a vase is made, with captions: two photographs in profile, the space between them, the profile line, and the solid that comes out. Silent, thirty-three seconds.
The same sequence without captions, as a looping animation. Ten seconds.
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One hundred vases from the original run. Hundreds of people: a vase holds as many faces as were sent for it.
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Sixty-four of them.
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A five inch, four faces, in the stone finish.
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A five inch, four faces, in black.
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A three inch, in black.
The printed surface, close. The layer lines are left as they come off the machine.
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A pile of finished vases.
One coming off the machine.
The machines the original run was made on, with a vase part-way through.
Marks
The current wordmark, lockup and glyph, in SVG and PNG, black and reversed. Please use these rather than any earlier mark.
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The wordmark. SVG alongside.
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The wordmark, reversed. SVG alongside.
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The wordmark with the tagline. SVG alongside, and a reversed SVG.
The glyph, black and reversed. SVG only.