Project Object
Posted: March 13, 2012 Filed under: Art, Beautiful objects, Bonkers, Brown Cardboard, Card Modelling, Cardboard Constructions, Corrugated cardboard, Design, Dioramas, Up cycled | Tags: Blackpool Council, Card modelling, Cardboard Constructions, Cardboard Models. modelling, Dioramas, Project Object, The Grundy Art Gallery 1 CommentDELIGHTED to say that Bonker*s Clutterbucks have been selected to work with the wonderful Grundy Art Gallery and Blackpool Council to work with the community to produce a range of saleable products for the art gallery and tourist office shops, as part of “Project Object”. We’ll be able to explore the cities wonderful archives for inspiration and plan to make some models and card modelling kits inspired by Blackpool’s historic collections and built heritage. We’ve been playing around with card and cardboard and are itching to get stuck in.
We are bonker*s about this Dickens Diorama for the Museum of London
Posted: February 6, 2012 Filed under: Art, Bonkers, Brown Cardboard, Corrugated cardboard, Design, Dioramas | Tags: Corrugated Cardboard, Dickens, Diorama, Museum of London Leave a commentWould love to have traveled to the big smoke to see this wonderful diorama at the Museum of London.
“The acclaimed creative director, curator and set designer, Simon Costin, has created a playful and contemporary window installation inspired by the Dickens and London exhibition. The view of the City Gallery from street level on London Wall will be transformed into a fantastical wintry vision of 19th century London.
Costin has created a magical and sprawling, blackened cardboard city, with winding alleys and shop fronts. At night hundreds of tiny LED lights will illuminate street lamps and the murky windows of the city.
Simon said: ‘My intention is to create a fantasy vision of London as it would have been glimpsed by Dickens on his nocturnal wanderings through the city. His essays are extremely evocative and I am using the text as my starting point and things will grow and develop from there. He has said that he felt like a child in a dream, ‘staring at the marvellousness of everything’. It is that marvellousness that I want to recreate’.” Museum of London
The Museum of British Folklore • Museum director creates a Dickens Diorama for the Museum of London.
