Its features include: the ability to quickly scan and print images, textures, and text, visual and physical feedback indicators, the ability to apply color filters to images, and the ability to crop and shape images.
Although the Collage Stamp was originally inspired by the difficulties many disabled artists’ face when using scissors or glue, its appeal has proven to be universal.
To copy an image, simply stamp on an existing image. The top of the stamp will illuminate the image has been captured. Press the stamp down firmly on any flat surface and the stamp will begin to print the image. Once the image has been printed the indicator light will turn off and the handle will "pop" up. The user receives both a visual and physical indication that the image has been printed.
Users can select from a number of stamp pad styles, which enable them to alter images being captured by the Collage Stamp. Here a user selects a color pad style, which allows them to manipulate the color of the image being reproduced by the stamp.
Here a shape style pad enables the user to cut and crop images without scissors.
The idea of turning a stamp into a collage device came directly out of probe where I gave artists various tools and had them imagine that they could use them to copy and print images on a work surface.
A behaves-like-prototype was produced so that I might communicate the concept behind the tool to artists and gives them a chance to respond to an experience which they control.
The Collage Stamp prototype was well received by many artists.
One example of some the original artwork produced by artists at NIAD who used the Collage Stamp