November Photography Competion: Foreign

[boskysquelch]

- apparently he makes expensive cutlery as well.

well he is one of the doyens of British Design...but then if you aren't involved or interested in Design you wouldn't know that wouldcha?!!!1

e2a :: but who hasn't got a derivative of these somewhere in their drawers...

 

[Robster970]

well done biddly......go on, pick a good theme.....

 

[Firky]

e2a :: but who hasn't got a derivative of these somewhere in their drawers...

Most of china?

 

[boskysquelch]

Most of china?

you'd be surprised!

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/david-mellor

 

[Firky]

DAM THE WOUND EYED PICKS - THEY EVEN MADE IT INTO OUR FOODSES!!!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'd quite like to see a single colour as a theme: red, green, blue, yellow - suspect 'blue' has the most meaning outside of just photographing blue things.

Some other possible themes that haven't been used yet: curves, abstract, darkness, silence, fun, kitch, mechanical, artificial, limbs, play, party, signs, landscape, pain, personal, round, straight, soft, technology, transport, modern, colour, city, games, wealth, fashion, wood, metal, plastic, vegetable, mineral...ok starting to run out now!

Or something abstract, like thump.

 

[Firky]

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/david-mellor

i know who david mellor is, look at all tommee tippee cutlery - it is a rip off of his stuff. I often wondered if he felt a sense of duty to design cutlery because of sheffield steal adn his background... design something that the proletariat can make and the bourgeois love - he is himself old lab IIRC.

 

[Firky]

that's a lie, i just thought it once or twice - never often wondered it. i do often wonder other more mundane things though - like will baccy ever be free

 

[Robster970]

i do often wonder other more mundane things though - like will baccy ever be free

crazy fool

 

[boskysquelch]

i know who david mellor is, look at all tommee tippee cutlery - it is a rip off of his stuff.

I wuznt trying to have a go as such...just saying that he is such an influential Designer of a lot of UK_World life he should not be underestimated in terms of his standing.

It's a bit like saying Beckham is a footballer...sells good shirts too.

Do you see wot I mean?

 

[Firky]

Who's Beckham?

I know what you mean, I just get a bit deffensive cos people assume I'm thick 'cos am a geordie, young and act like a total fucking tosspot

 

[soulfluxzero]

Congrats on the win BiddlyBee . I'll be happy with any theme for December as long as it aint 'christmas' or 'snow' or 'yuletide blessings,' *bleurrrgh* you get the picture...

 

[boskysquelch]

I know what you mean,

gud_gud...my work is done and I can get back to UltraViolet

vroom_vroom_smash_slash_zap_zap

 

[Descartes]

Cough cough, what's so special about DM's knives and forks, that hasn't already been done...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/085667544X/ref=sib_dp_pt/203-8119809-3323132#reader-link

More knives and forks than you would ever need in a mulitude of shapes and with bones handles just llike Mr Mellors only about 100 years earlier.

 

[boskysquelch]

Cough cough, what's so special about DM's knives and forks, that hasn't already been done...

I had a jolly good reply fer this but Firefox went and ate it thru some Shortcut...erm

Waht I said was that Mellor's "expensive cutlery" is a part of an expansive portfolio that many of us appreciate. We and many other nations live with his influence and the homage other designers give to his abilities.


or some such and better

 

[Skim]

congrats biddly

 

[disco_dave_2000]

I wuznt trying to have a go as such...just saying that he is such an influential Designer of a lot of UK_World life he should not be underestimated in terms of his standing.

I went to the David Mellor workshop / musuem recently - didn't know much about him before the visit, but really amazed by the man and his work. He has designed all sorts of diverse things - much more than cutlery - traffic lights, signs, street furniture and all in a way, that to me, they look almost 'un-designed'. But of course someone had to draft them in the first place. An underrated genius I think.

 

[hiccup]

Well done biddlybee

 

[Biddlybee]

New topic finally picked: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=5365130#post5365130

Sorry for delay bosky

 

[Lisarocket]

Oops,wrong thread

 

[dlx1]

well done Biddlybee I didn't see page 3 of thumnails

good to see brake down lighterthief