Month: September 2010

Day 27: Pencil shelf

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Today I made a shelf from coloured pencils by glueing them together. I was suprised at how strong it was using two layers of pencils.

Pencil shelf dominic wilcox

Pencil shelf dominic wilcox

Pencil shelf dominic wilcox

The shelf brackets are made by cutting a single pencil case into two parts and glueing together. The sliding doors hide the screws.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Outcomes were exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, curated by Daniel Charny, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London.
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Day 26: Bread vases

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Continuing my investigation into bread I created some bread vases. I used tin foil as a base on which to wrap the bread dough. I decided to overlap the dough and keep the seam which seemed a natural method of joining the rolled dough. I always think it is best to let a material go where it wants and take a natural form under guidance. I started sealing the vases with resin and varnish and i will report back in the future.

Bread Vase Dominic Wilcox

Bread Vases Dominic Wilcox

I enjoy waiting to see how the heat and the baking process affects the dough. I’m learning what is possible and how to solve issues as I go along. The imperfections, curves and leans in the vases are something I am excited about.

Bread Vase Dominic Wilcox

The stage of creating the foil base is essential to the final form.

Bread Vase Dominic Wilcox

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Outcomes were exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 25: Door stop extension

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The door stop is a modest thing, quietly getting on with it’s job of keeping the door open. I decided to attempt to reveal it’s true inner strength. Using lengths of wood I extended out from the door stop across the room. The extension does not touch the floor, it is purely supported by the solitary door stop and the strength of it’s wedge under the door.

Door stop Dominic Wilcox

Door stop Dominic Wilcox

Door stop Dominic Wilcox

Door stop Dominic Wilcox

Door stop Dominic Wilcox

2 hours previously my sister had a baby called Holly, I have added her name in the work. Congratulations little sis and Rob, welcome tiny Holly.

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Day 24: I remember you well

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Time is so fleeting, many people want it all back again but the best we can do is try to capture moments. A bronze bust captures a person’s face for eternity. I decided to use another metal to create my own bust, one that is so fragile it can be destroyed in a second. This tin foil bust is me at the age of 21 (a long while ago). (Made by forming foil into the original old plaster mould)

Tin Foil Bust

Tin Foil Bust

Tin Foil Bust

Tin Foil Bust

Tin Foil Bust

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Outcomes were exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, curated by Daniel Charny, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days in a row.

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Day 23: Balloon animal chandelier

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I like how light passes through a balloon. One of the top dogs in the balloon kingdom is the balloon animal and I decided to make a chandelier out of them.

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

I enjoyed the colours on the ceiling.

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

Making balloon animals is a test of nerve, they can go bang at any time.

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

Herding my balloons into some sort of order was a difficult task. They are all shapes and sizes and each wants to go it’s own way.

Balloon Aniimal Chandelier by Dominic Wilcox

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Day 21: the Grapes of wrap

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My favourite imaginary fruit would be a giant grape the size of a cantaloupe melon. I can imagine it heavy in my hand and I would have a slice with cheese. Grapes are little juicy jewels to me and I wanted to treat them as something deserving of special attention.

Grapes wrapped dominic wilcox

Here I wrapped them in thread. It’s quite a difficult procedure, the unwrapping of the grape will be far quicker depending on your prefered technique.

Grapes wrapped dominic wilcox

Here I thought about packaging them in a layer of wax so that the ceremony of eating each grape gained an even higher level of appreciation.
I used thread around the grape so that it could be used to aid the pealing of the wax which would cover it.

‘The dipping of the grape’ in the wax.

The grape is unveiled by pulling the thread and peeling back the wax shell. The ‘Eating of the Grape’ commences. I think I have been subconsciously influenced by the work of Deirdre Nelson.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Outcomes were exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 19: Bread objects

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I wanted to mix bread with some existing structure so chose a couple of items for the baking treatment. Firstly the Philippe Starck lemon squeezer which is very sleek and stylish, perfect to be breadified.

Bread stark lemon squeezer

Dough took a while to wrap around the squeezer.

Starck bread lemon squeezer

starck bread squeezer Dominic Wilcox

Made me hungry for lemon curd on crispy bread.

Dominic Wilcox Bread squeezer starck

Attempt at stylish shot in style of.

bread plaster

I had the idea to mix plaster with the flour to see if it made a super strong bread.

Bread hammer

Thought I would make the grip comfortable for me.

Bread Hammer

The Plaster-Bread has the nice crack/crustiness of bread but loses the brown colour. More testings of this new material are imminent.

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Day 17: Project exhibit creation

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The opening party for the Anti design festival was today and so I had to go in and build/design a way of showing the things I have made during my one a day speed creating project so far. I had a large column in the middle of the room to work around. The Anti design festival is very much anti ‘slick’ so I knew I could just make it up as I went along in a speedy way with lots of Gaffa tape. The videos I have made are also projected on a large screen within the ‘Mestakes and Manifestos’ room. If you are new here go to the main page to see all the day projects so far. My installation and the many other works by other people are on show until the 21st sept (adf continues till 26th) at the LondonNewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch st, London. map

anti design festival

Anti design festival Dominic Wilcox

Anti design festival Dominic Wilcox

ADF

On visiting the space I saw some pizza boxes used by some people the previous night. I asked if anyone was using them and they werent. I thought that the fast food nature of the boxes fitted with ‘speed creating’ and so I would make some shelves from them.

anti design festival Dominic Wilcox

anti design festival

anti design festival

anti design festival

used some more fast food things in these chinese take away boxes.

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Day 16: YES Lolly

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I bought packets of ice lolly sticks from a craft shop and arranged them on the floor. I liked the random pattern and decided to glue them together.

Yes lolly pop

Yes lolly pop

I thought adding colour to the sticks would be good and I decided to dip the sticks in ink up to the same line as used ice lollys are stained.

yes loll pop

yes loll pop

yes loll pop

lolly pop yes

I made the word YES as I think it’s the most positive word there is. I feel this sums up the project in some way, Can I think of an idea today? ‘YES’ I try to tell myself. As soon as I start thinking NO then it tends to come true so I want to try to keep reminding myself of the YES.

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Day 14: Hill Walking Shoes

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There are a couple of ideas I’ve had in the past that I wanted to try out to see if they work. This one is about making it easier to walk up hills. I attach a angled block onto my shoes so that my foot can remain horizontal as I climb the hill.

hillshoes

I found a piece of wood in a skip and cut it up. I drilled some holes in the side and fed some shoe laces through it that would be used to fasten the blocks to my shoes.

hill shoes

Hill Shoes

I found a little hill, there are very few hills in London so this had to do

Got my hill blocks out.

Strapped them on.

The test revealed that I shouldn’t have used laces as they kept coming loose. The foot did keep quite horizontal but it was still a bit awkward, though this may have been down to the feeble lace attachment. I ran out of time to fix it so it felt a bit of a failure. Which as I say in my project description, I embrace and learn from.

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Day 13: Bath Fountain

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My bath always seemed to be missing something, could not put my finger on it, then I realised what it was so I made it.

Bath Fountain

Bath Fountain

Bought a cherub and drilled a hole in it’s mouth, attached some pipes and glued them in place.

Bath Fountain

Bath Fountain

Bath Fountain

Bath Fountain

Bath Fountain

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 12: Armswing chair

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I visited a factory and looked around for something to make. I found some rope and a wooden armchair and decided to make a swing as there was a high beam on the ceiling.

Armchair Swing

Armchair Swing

Armchair Swing

Ron and Richard helped me put it up.

Armchair Swing

It took a little time to work out how to tie it securely.

Arm Chair Swing

Arm Chair Swing

My Dad re-living the good old days.

Arm Chair Swing

Arm Chair Swing

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Day 11: Beach Ball Chair

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I bought lots of beach balls and some net so that I could have a sit down for a few minutes.

Beach Ball Chair

It’s comfortable if a little squeaky. Could also go on water maybe.

beach ball seat

beach ball seat

Beach ball chair

Beach Ball Chair

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 10: Mirror rorriM

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I arranged some things I have around my house on the floor attempting to mirror them.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 9: Workercise

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During this Speed Creating project I am finding that I don’t have time for any exercise activities so I thought I should invent something to enable me to exercise while working. It’s called ‘workercise’. I strapped bungee cord to my wrists so that using a laptop requires a little more effort, it really works those pectoral muscles.

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Day 8: Reminder Laptop Flag

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I can get a bit obsessive when I think up an idea and start working on it, suddenly the whole day has gone and I haven’t had lunch. This portable laptop flag will hopefully remind me to eat.

After some thought on how to connect the flag and the fan I glued some clothes pegs together.

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Day 7: Diary tape

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I was sitting on the sofa thinking what to do next and I had a tape measure near by. I played with it a bit and thought what a clever mechanism it is. Why has it remained the sole domain of measurement? I decided to try and think of a new use. Firstly I sprayed the whole thing white.

Then I decided that it could be a portable diary and that I could document through notes and sketches each day of this 30 day project.

I recalled what I did in the previous days so far and drew them in order. I will continue through the forthcoming days.

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Day 6: Bread Lampshade

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Continuing from Day 5’s lightbulb in bread dough experiment I decided to make some lampshades from bread. This time I used used bread flour with no yeast to keep the bread thin, hoping this would increase translucency. First I rolled some bread dough over a metal semi sphere.

After it came out of the oven and I tested it against a lightbulb I decided that it was a little too thick to let enough light through so I decided to drill holes through it.

Bread Lampshade

Bread Lampshade

Bread Lampshade

I then rolled out a large circular shape of dough and draped it over a large glass and put it in the oven.

I dry the bread out until it is hard. I will probably need to seal the bread with varnish to keep it from going mouldy. I think I need to spend more time perfecting the process but it would be great to fill a big room with bread lights.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival 18th-22nd September, Mestakes and Manifestos, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 5: Bread of light

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I wondered what would happen if I put a light bulb in bread dough, baked it then switched it on….

I used a low energy bulb as I thought maybe it wouldn’t get too hot and burn the bread when switched on. (don’t try this at home)

I liked the volcanic red colour/texture. Next step is to go bigger. This one is to be continued…

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival 18th-26th September, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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Day 4: Shadow drawing

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I was in the bath and thinking what to do for the Speed Creating project. I looked at the taps and saw that they had a strong shadow behind them cast by the hallway light through the open door. I’ve always thought shadows were interesting. I decided I would make them more permanent by drawing over them. I would like to do something larger on a wall somewhere.

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