Filed under: Drawings | Tags: dominic wilcox, jaffa cakes, loch ness, queen's guards, stonehenge, the thames, tower bridge
McVitie’s, the biscuit people, challenged me to create some British themed creations using their Jaffa Cakes. I took my inspiration from friends who described their strange and unique methods of eating them. I started to nibble and pick away, going through 30 boxes of Jaffa Cakes to try to get shapes that fitted with my British themed ideas. One problem I had was when I got distracted by the radio and then looked back to see I had eaten the Loch Ness monster. See the video and pictures of what I came up with below.
Stonehenge
The sunset effect was achieved by shining a light through the Jaffa Cakes orange wrapper. I like the realistic reflection.
The white cliffs of Dover
Tower Bridge
Set up with a plastic bag.
The Loch Ness Monster
The Queen’s Guards (The ones with the big bear skin hats outside Buckingham palace)
The Union Jack flag
Queen’s head on coin
The Thames river
All of them.
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Thanks goes out to Joe McGorty who helped me get the photographs done.
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Reblogged this on The OTC Space and commented:
Comment by Bill Hodgson March 13, 2012 @ 2:58 pmBritain represented by my favourite snack.
Really cool
My favourite is Stonehenge!
Comment by Josy March 13, 2012 @ 4:46 pmYes i like that one also.
Comment by Dominic (admin) March 13, 2012 @ 6:40 pmYou’ve wasted your time and now you’ve wasted my time. Good god.
Comment by no one March 13, 2012 @ 5:48 pmBe creative, be positive, smile, life’s too short to be a negative, angry person. Good luck.
Comment by Dominic (admin) March 13, 2012 @ 6:45 pmReminds me of the inflatable school for balloons into which one pupil brought a pin – which was strictly prohibited.
You can guess what happened.
Afterwards the head teacher said: “You’ve let yourself down, you’ve let me down and you’ve let the whole school down.”
Lighten up Mr or Ms Anon. This is inspired. I love it.
Comment by blackwatertown March 18, 2012 @ 1:26 amReblogged this on mysteriousforest and commented:
Comment by mysteriousforest March 13, 2012 @ 9:23 pmfor my UK friends
yumtastic!! fun project and i love the detail (though i see you’ve gone for the abstract rendering of southwark and tower hamlets)
Comment by quoc (@temujindang) March 14, 2012 @ 12:20 amExcellent creative ideas that just proves what you can do if you explore your imagination well done. I wonder if we will see your creations on TV in a future jaffa cake ad?
Comment by m smith March 14, 2012 @ 12:30 amBrililant – love it. I miss England and Jaffa cakes! From over here in Australia.
Comment by Bex Mc March 14, 2012 @ 12:59 amDominic, I always enjoy your work. This really made me smile. You make the Designer’s job look fun! Great reminder of what we all should be focusing on…..CREATIVITY
Comment by Martin Blum March 14, 2012 @ 9:49 amThank you Martin, i wonder if b&q have a food/cafe department I could work on.. (in joke)
Comment by Dominic (admin) March 14, 2012 @ 10:26 amIf ever there was an ideal job, I think you’ve just found it
Comment by First Class Physio (@1stClassPhysio) March 14, 2012 @ 11:16 amdid you use your teeth as the only tool? fun & creative project!
Comment by daga March 14, 2012 @ 2:12 pmYeah teeth for most things, bit of fingers and tongue sometimes to poke holes.
Comment by Dominic (admin) March 14, 2012 @ 2:37 pmMaking me über hungry. Love the lochness
Comment by Akiko catbun March 14, 2012 @ 10:04 pmI’d have liked to see the houses of Parliament, though
Comment by Photographer March 17, 2012 @ 1:05 amThank you or as we say where I live Merci. You are the essence of a creative person and I thoroughly enjoy following your work.
Comment by Virginia Field March 18, 2012 @ 3:11 pmVA de Paris
what a delicious post!
Comment by aminder (@aminder_d) March 20, 2012 @ 6:03 pmWhat you’re doing’s cutely impressive, but it’s not exactly “Britain” when the only icon you nibble from outside the south of England is a made-up creature. Just sayin’.
Comment by Harry Giles March 22, 2012 @ 8:06 amWhat do you mean a made up creature? Haven’t you seen the movie with Ted Danson? I’m from Sunderland, so not a southerner so don’t worry that there has been some southern bias
. The fact is I wanted to find things that were recognisable to people in this and other countries that I could do interestingly in Jaffa Cakes. You can’t be too subtle with tiny, crumbly cakes. Most world wide famous things are found in the south unfortunately due to history. A northern one I tried was the Angel of the north but it was a bit dull in Jaffa Cake form. If you (or anyone out there) have examples of more northern things I could have done that are widely recognisable ‘and’ an interesting way to make from Jaffa Cakes please get back to me and add to my site some ideas. It’s all good.
Comment by Dominic (admin) March 22, 2012 @ 9:04 am