This special episode of the Standards podcast is an in-depth conversation with the BSI's Matthew Chiles about sizegiver - a project which explores the use of standards in an unusual and interesting way.

A sizegiver is an object placed into a photograph to enable judgement of another object’s size or scale. They are mass-produced, designed and standardized objects, which are iconic and familiar, but also commonplace. Examples of sizegivers include coins, bottle caps, paperclips, matchsticks, coke cans, or golf balls. They create object-object relationships, which communicate scale faster than a ruler, but are are often strange, playful and unusual.

Corinne explains how sizegiving is becoming an international visual shorthand to describe the meaning of images, tell stories and bring together communities.

Spotify URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2AKzPxBm1FrbemNwusPZPu?si=Gz0Ip844TT6xyymybQViiA

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35133