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(Mostly) Designed in Hackney: east London designers Dominic Wilcox, Ed Carpenter, André Klauser, Barnaby Barford and Donna Wilson have created a range of alternative souvenirs for visitors to east London during the Olympic games.

Three of the designers are based in Hackney: Dominic Wilcox will make a vinyl record featuring the sounds of things being made in east London, Ed Carpenter has created a series of name badges featuring cockney rhyming slang and his colleague André Klauser offers a paperweight shaped like the bollards found along east London canals.

Donna Wilson, who’s just over the border from Hackney in Tower Hamlets, designed a series of exercise books that are decorated with pictures of Londoners exercising and include tips for enjoying the city’s parks and pools on the back.

Meanwhile Barnaby Barford has created a series of miniature porcelain houses, shops and a public house, each modelled on east London buildings with a story to tell.

The series is commissioned by arts organisation Create, and curated and produced by Thorsten van Elten.

See alternative commemorative plates for last year’s royal wedding here and rapid-prototyped souvenirs that can be emailed to loved ones and printed locally here.

See all our stories about the London 2012 Olympics here.

See more about design in the east London borough of Hackney here.

Here’s some more information from Create:

CREATE 2012 Souvenirs

CREATE has commissioned design authority Thorsten van Elten to work with five east London designers and artists to create some well-considered souvenirs to celebrate east London and its cultural heritage. CREATE 2012 Souvenirs is a series of irreverent London souvenirs made in the UK and will be the desirable antidote to the overly-commercial, tacky souvenirs on sale across London this summer. The souvenirs go on sale the first day of CREATE’s summer programme, Thursday 21 June.

The five designers are Barnaby Barford, Ed Carpenter, André Klauser, Dominic Wilcox and Donna Wilson and the designs include a series of three exercise books that illustrate some of the best places to exercise in London, a cast-iron multi-purpose paperweight/bookend/doorstop based on East London’s Regent’s Canal mooring bollards made in a local foundry and a series of bone china miniature east London landmark houses and shops. Prices will range from £10 – £50 and each item will be embossed as a ‘CREATE 2012 Souvenir’.

Hadrian Garrard, Director of CREATE, said: “We are very pleased to be working with a group of talented east London designers to create unique souvenirs which show off the best of east London designers and UK manufacturing. We have commissioned a series of fun and desirable products that will last as a special reminder of a huge year for east London.”

CREATE Souvenirs will be on sale in selected shops and online via the CREATE website from 21 June.

Deutsche Bank is the main sponsor of CREATE 2012’s summer programme.

Exercise Books by Donna Wilson

Donna has always been interested in words with double meanings and uses them often in her work. For example ‘Tell me a tale’ written in a fox’s tail and a compliments slip with a complement on it. Donna has designed a set of three Exercise Books with illustrations of people doing exercise, loosely relating to the Olympic Games. Living and working in east London, Donna is very familiar with the parks, the lido and east London cyclists and she will be sharing some tips for parks and pools on the back of the books. Donna is known for her collection of knitted creatures and cushions. She was named Designer of the Year at the 2010 British Design Awards.

Regents Domestic Bollard by André Klauser

Water and canals have played an important role in the development and connection of east London, and canals have recently had a massive surge in popularity. André has created a book end/paperweight/door stop based on the mooring bollards along east London’s canals. The bollards will be cast in iron by a foundry based on Regents Canal, by Broadway Market in Hackney. The company previously cast fences for the British Museum and National Gallery. André has previously designed the Mechano, a chair inspired by the aesthetics of industrial shelving.

Sounds of Making by Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox has created a vinyl record that celebrates the act of making things and the unusually high number of skilled ‘Makers’ based in east London. Sounds include ‘The sound of making an outfit for Lady Gaga in Hackney’, ‘The sound of a book binder at work in Walthamstow’ and ‘The sound of a record being pressed by a company which had to relocate from what is now the Olympic Park’. Dominic’s previous work includes his War Bowls, made from melted plastic army figures, as well as his Watch sculptures, built on the faces of wrist and pocket watches.

Cockney Rhyming Badges by Ed Carpenter

Ed Carpenter has designed a series of colourful gilt and enamel badges that celebrate the dying art of Cockney Rhyming Slang. Sold in sets of three, there will be three collections available based on the subjects of food, work and compliments/swear words. Ed Carpenter also designed the celebrated Pigeon light.

Houses by Barnaby Barford

Barnaby Barford has designed a set of five bone china miniature houses depicting homes, shops and a public house all with a story attached to them. The houses will depict a small part of the long history of east London and will include a house on Cable Street, scene of clashes with fascists in 1936; E. Pellicci, an Italian café in Bethnal Green which has been in the same family for over 100 years; The Golden Pound pound shop; The Blind Beggar Pub; and the former home of Benjamin Waugh, the founder of the NSPCC. The houses will be double–sided and will feature 10 different landmark buildings. Barnaby is known for his ceramic figurines, made by reconfiguring found porcelain figurines to create more contemporary figures.

London designer Dominic Wilcox is building up to Britain hosting the Olympic games this summer by nibbling his way through 30 boxes of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes to build models of UK landmarks and icons.

Watch this movie on Dezeen Screen »

The series includes depictions of the river thames, Tower Bridge, pound coins, the white cliffs of Dover, the Union Jack flag and the queen’s guards.

He used the orange plastic wrapper as a filter to get the appropriate lighting effect for a sunset at Stone Henge.

Other examples of his work on Dezeen include a smart-phone stylus that straps over your nose, coat hooks made from unwashed paint brushes and a series of sculptures that feature tiny characters perched on the hands of vintage watches.

Like Dezeen, Wilcox is based in the London borough of Hackney – see our showcase of design from the area here.

Photographs are by Dominic Wilcox.

Here’s the full story from Wilcox:

It’s quite a big year for Britain with the olympics coming up soon. In celebration of this, McVitie’s 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.

Designers including Jaime Hayon, Paul Cocksedge and Dominic Wilcox will create unique products and curate displays of their work at The Temporium, our Christmas shop taking place at 65 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London from 1-24 December.

Dominic Wilcox is creating a special black version of his English Civil War bowl (above) and a red version of his Battle of Waterloo bowl – both part of his classic War Bowls series made from melted toy soldiers.

Wilcox is also selling some of his unique drawings (above).

Jaime Hayon will curate a selection of glass and ceramic objects he has designed for various brands (above: porcelain for Kutani Choemon) and is working on a unique limited edition product that will only be on sale at The Temporium.

Paul Cocksedge will present a special Christmas version of his Change the Record speaker (above), with a white label allowing customers to write their own message on the product before giving it as a gift. See our video interview with Paul about Change the Record.

Dezeen Watch Store will also take part in The Temporium, selling our full collection of watches including Iconograph by Werner Aisslinger (above) plus we’ll be selling our new book, Dezeen Book of Ideas (below), as well as our highly desirable T-shirts, bags and stickers!

Other designers and brands confirmed for the store include jewellery designer Fiona Paxton (below), retailer Theo, designer low-energy bulb brand Plumen, retro phone-makers Hulger and furniture and lighting brand Matilda. Many more names and products will be announced over the coming weeks.

There is still a limited amount of space remaining for designers who want to sell their products at The Temporium. The deadline for submissions is next Monday, 14 November. More details here.

Full details of The Temporium follow:

Dezeen presents The Temporium
65 Monmouth Street
Seven Dials, Covent Garden
London WC2H 9DG

Dates: 1-24 December 2011

Opening times:
Monday – Saturday: 10:30 – 19:00
Sunday: 12:00 – 17:00

www.thetemporium.com

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Dezeen presents The Temporium: take part	Dezeen Watch Store in Barcelona	Dezeen Space at 54 Rivington Street

A watch featuring a looter running off with a TV while a riot policeman stands and watches is one of a series of one-off, customised time pieces commissioned by Dezeen from Dominic Wilcox.

The series of seven sculptures, each featuring tiny, hand-crafted figures attached to the watch hands, will be exhibited at Dezeen Space in Shoreditch, London from 17 September to 16 October.

The Looter watch was inspired by the recent riots in London, which Wilcox witnessed first hand. Wilcox says: “I had to walk across Mare Street in Hackney to get home during the riots. I remember seeing a boy carrying an LCD TV down a back street. I noticed how the police seemed unsure how to react, holding their  circular shields while the boy held a rectangular TV.”

The series also features a watch with a man so engrossed in his iPhone that he fails to notice an incredible feat of balance and strength occurring right next to him; and another with a young girl trying to stop a butcher killing a floating pig.

Each sculpture is a unique piece, based on a vintage watch and protected by a glass dome. The watches will be on sale for £500 each at Dezeen Space, at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN.

See all our stories about Dominic Wilcox, including coat hooks made from paint-encrusted brushes and a nose-mounted device that allows you to use your smartphone while in the bath.

Above: London Looter. “A hooded youth sprints away with a 42 inch LCD TV while a riot policeman looks on.”

Above: The unrequited handshake. “The outstretched hand of friendship is continually rejected.”

Above: Rest time. “A brief moment to sit.”

Above: A man, engrossed in his iphone, is oblivious to the monkey balanced on the head of a weightlifting boy who stands on the arm of an elderly rollerskater. “That is the title.”

Above: Adventures of a young vegetarian OR Pigs shall fly. “A small girl attempts to stop a butcher chopping up a pig by hanging on his arm while the pig floats away.”

Above: Hide n seek. “A pig tailed girl hides behind a tree from a searching boy.”

Above: Watch sweeper. “The numbers and hands of a watch are swept away by a watch sweeper.”

Here’s some text from Wilcox:

Watch sculptures: Moments in time by Dominic Wilcox

Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature time-based sculptures using a collection of vintage watches and customised model figures. By attaching tiny figures onto the second and minute hands of each watch, Wilcox has made unique, animated scenes from everyday observations and imagined situations.

Background info

Last September I undertook a project called Speed Creating (shown at the Anti design festival) where I made a new creative thing each day for 30 days. It was during that time that I came up with the idea of attaching figures onto the hands of watches. I decided I should take more time developing the idea so made the decision not to use it in the Speed Creating project.

Eight months later I showed a prototype to the people at Dezeen and they commissioned me to create a collection of these watch sculptures for September. I wanted to create a series of scenes and fleeting moments both observed and imagined. Playing with the idea of unending repetition.

The miniature figure on the second hand moves around constantly and the figure on the minute hand appears stationary. I spent time thinking about the relationship between the two people, how one passes another repeatedly and I tried to think about when that situation happens in real life or in an imagined scenario.

I altered head and arm angles of found model figures and made objects such as the LCD tv with wire and plug. The glass domes are hand blown to fit each watch exactly.

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The Last Laugh by William Andrews	Alone in a Crowd by Rolf Sachs	Hanging by Rita Botelho

Non so se avete mai lasciato seccare un pennello sporco di vernice a testa in giù. Inutilizzabile, se non come appendino da parete. Questo è quello che deve aver pensato Dominic Wilcox.
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