by admin | May 13, 2014 | |
Fuse A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire - Laurie Anderson Limited Edition available to buy online at Visible Object UK The Challenge Having been slightly obsessed with the prosaic, workaday, functional fuse since first watching his Dad change one Tony wanted to play with scale to create a light. He was also interested in the nature of the fuse’s importance in plugs, how we can’t run our homes without one, that we never have the right one to hand when one blows (and just what is going on when that happens?). About Fuse: Fuse was a lamp design part of a range of lighting designed by Tony Davis and launched at 100% Design in 2008. Tony worked with Jon Baker of Design360 on the technical elements of the Lamp. Project Overview & Solutions If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him - Robert Louis Stevenson The design approach was to explore a scaling of the humble fuse which (thought they vary) only millimetres in diameter. Once this was decided everything else followed on. The end caps were spun aluminium with a local metal working company. The central area was created with perspex tubing. The opalescence came from a film later on the inside silk-screened with the surface details. The base featured small unobtrusive nodes to hold the design slightly proud of any surface. A small number of wall brackets were created to replicate the bracket found within a typical 13amp UK plug. The final design...
by admin | May 13, 2014 | |
Steven Appleby Steven Appleby is a cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Britain. He is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada. His humour is usually observational or absurd. The Challenge Working with Steven isn’t a challenge at all. He’s interesting, eclectic, unpredictably energetic and generous in his creating and thinking to point of being new species (Homo Pinxit?). We hooked up because Steven created the wonderful Secret Thoughts of Cats (etc) series at the time with Bloomsbury (for whom he also created a great parody of their Diana logotype). What about the work? Well, the idea was to create a series of designs based on the Secret Thoughts Series (Men, Women, Cats, Babies). Seems simple enough? About Steven: Steven Appleby is one of this country’s leading cartoonists. He has published so many books that he is working on building a house out of books when he gets some spare time. His work currently appears regularly in the Guardian (who publish his Loomus Cartoon every week which everyone should read), The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, Junior and the Oldie. He lives in south London. See more at his website Steven Appleby (designed by Joe Davis) or read his newspaper ‘The Bubble of Truth’. Steven is represented by Conville Walsh if you want to commission him for something. Project Overview & Solutions If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him - Robert Louis Stevenson One of the problems (if it can be described as such) is the prolific nature of Steven’s work. There’s just so much to choose from....
by admin | May 3, 2014 | |
Art More Lovely Artist Collective Art More Lovely - Art Collective Art More Lovely was started in 2011. Kicked off by Tony Davis and Genny Early it is a loose collective of creatives who exhibit during Oxford Art Weeks each year in early Summer. The location is Heyford House, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire. Heyford House is also a lovely place to stay. Work features ceramics, collage, linocut, photography, oak furniture, and mixed media. Artists who have exhibited include: Kath Fotheringham, Merlin Brooke-Little, Genny Early, Tony Davis, Charlotte Rademeyer, Sue Abbiss Stubbs, Dz Designs (Samantha Drewett & Richard Zakss), Fredrica Craig, Abigail Boisot, Kate Byrne, Rodas Irving. Why not take a look at the Art More Lovely website to see what’s happening at this year’s Oxford Art Weeks. Location: Lower Heyford, UK Development Phase: Ongoing, yearly. Website: Art More Lovely Follow… Search...
