I wanted to make my room more welcoming so I thought up this idea. You can even wipe your feet wherever you want. Oh and there is a patch of carpet where the door mat should be.
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The first idea for drying hair nearly took off, literally. An idea I showed in icon magazine in my ‘The lost sketchbooks’ monthly sketch. More ideas coming soon, hope you enjoy… Follow future ideas via Twitter/Facebook/RSS/Email
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This weeks thought popped into my head as a method of relieving my passive aggressive rage on seeing someone throw something out his car window.
Welcome Russian visitors! My idea this week is a two way toothpaste, ideal for those who get angry with their partner for squeezing the toothpaste from the front. Simply open the other end and squeeze from the back as demonstrated below. Also quite useful for getting the last of the paste out of the bottom.
I admit that I squeeze from the front but I hope that by recognising the problem I have taken the first steps towards becoming a better person. With thanks to my excellent illustrator friend Clare Mallison for the use of her hand. For those who like this idea see my previous genetically modified egg or my home stats doorbell. <<Follow more ideas on Twitter/Facebook, © Dominic Wilcox.
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Ironically uploaded after a day sitting behind my desk.
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I played a lot of football when I was young, I had trials for Sunderland school boys. I failed but I’m sure having this rude ball would have helped my chances. Alas, I’ve only just come up with it now, twenty years too late, so another dream has passed me by.
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In 2000 I saw a documentary about the Royal College of Art on BBC2 that focused on a course called Design Products. There was an artist on the course and the projects seemed to be very conceptual, ideas based, so I decided to apply.
When I walked into the interview room there were about six people standing around a table looking at my sketchbooks. A man said ’show me your shoes, show me your shoes!’ This confused me at first but later I learned that he was refering to a drawing in my sketchbook (shown above). This man turned out to be Ron Arad, a famous designer and architect. Luckily I was accepted on the course based on this and my other sketched ideas.
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I give talks about my work every now and again. The audiences are usually in darkness and I wonder what they are doing as I chatter away.
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Here is an idea I showed in icon magazine in my ‘The lost sketchbooks’ monthly drawings. I have made one in my back garden and use it frequently.
While making my War Bowls (see below) a number of years ago I came across this little fat soldier. He was obviously a freak manufacturing defect but to me he was special.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
With thanks to Nora Oberle for reminding me about this idea I had in an old sketchbook.
Oct 23rd, 2009
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I had a bath and made a knuckle duster, a baby polar bear and a puppy.
I have made a limited edition of 20 Luxury 24ct gold leafed skimming stones complete with handmade leather belt pouch to fit each stone. They are currently on show in London at YCN shoreditch area, for more details and more pics go here (Also known as skipping stones)
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Here is an installation I have made for an exhibition in London this week, a field made with 400 eco-friendly shoes. For more details go to my project site here.
While I was in Berlin I sat amongst friendly Germans wondering what it was they were talking and laughing about. It was frustrating and I thought ‘Oh I wish they had subtitles’. This device brings together technology that exists already to provide translated subtitles below the speaker. To explain, the speech is picked up by a microphone, this is then converted to text by an inbuilt processor (Spoken word to text software already exists). Then that text is internally translated into the selected language and displayed on the screen. Of course to have a conversation both parties need to wear the subtitles set to their listener’s language. The processor has to be very fast but technology is getting there…
The above idea takes away the subtitles and instead turns the translated text into electronic spoken word.
Credits: Originals: Top photograph by Marjo Wright/PictureThis, Second photo by Howard Stredwick and model Thomas Tsui
Aug 19th, 2009
