Outpost Office, “Nebometer”

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“NEBOMETER” is a limited edition work by Outpost Office (Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann), published in 2022 by Phillip Denny for NYRA Editions. Total sales proceeds, approximately $5,000, benefitted the Kharkiv School of Architecture, a university establishing new standards for architectural education in Ukraine.

Attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt, the cyanometer is an instrument for measuring sky intensity. This nebometer (from nebo, the Ukrainian word for sky) includes a spectrum of hues sampled from depictions of Ukrainian skies as painted, rendered, or photographed by 22 Ukrainian artists.

The nebometer is waterproof, and digitally-printed on styrene in an edition of 100. Each print includes one nebometer and a numbered protective sleeve.

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Outpost Office is a design practice based in Columbus, Ohio where principals and co-founders Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann teach at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Outpost Office seeks new public audiences through experimental creative production ranging from the serious to the absurd, often simultaneously. Inventive applications of off-the-shelf tools and industrial-grade materials often characterize the practice's work. Their designs propose that architecture can be projective and impactful while at the same time inexpensive, temporal, and open-ended. Particular focuses of Outpost Office include experimental platforms for gathering and speculations in and about the American suburbs.

Nebometer
By Outpost Office/Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann
Published by Phillip Denny with NYRA Editions
2022
Edition of 100 + 50 Proofs
Photography: Outpost Office and Zelig Fok