دومينيك ويلكوكس
多米尼克·威尔科克斯
דומיניק וילקוקס
ドミニク·ウィルコックス
ДОМИНИК УИЛКОКС

Sound Bulbs

source: mixedgrillnl

Kunstenaar Dominic Wilcox staat bekend om het combineren van alledaagse zaken tot iets bijzonders. Zijn laatste uitvinding is de Sound Bulb. Hij voorzag oude radio van een schroeffitting die je normaal gesproken alleen bij gloeilampen ziet. Met behulp van deze fitting kun je de radio in iedere passende lamp schroeven.
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source: gizmodo

Dominic Wilcox has a knack for the absurd. He’s designed gold-plated luxury skipping stones, anti-theft bike stickers, and a post-it note tattoo for hand-written notes. His latest design, though, is both absurd and incredibly useful: a conversion system that makes it possible to screw old sound systems into light sockets.

Wilcox calls them Sound Bulbs, and they were built in response to a game aimed at finding new uses for old objects. The challenge was based on the age-old sleepover game, Telephone, with a slight twist: rather than passing along a word, participants passed along objects. The recipient was then responsible for creating a new use for the old object. “The object I was given was a ceiling lamp,” Wilcox explains on his blog. “I started to think about ceiling lights and the question of ‘why do we only plug light bulbs into lamp sockets?’”

I could have chose a minimal table lamp and a modern day music player, but decided to go in the opposite direction. There are not many opportunities in life to combine 1880 golden statues with 1980 ghetto blasters so I took it.

The mapping of one set of functions onto another resulted in some interesting chances to explore how the intersection of two design typologies: for example, the on/off string on the lamp became a way to start and stop the music a boom box. We’ve seen “audio bulbs” before, but this a fascinating example of how a simple DIY hack can retrofit ubiquitous infrastructure with new functions.
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ABOUT

Hello, I’m Dominic Wilcox and this is my website. In 2009 I decided to start sharing my thoughts instead of keeping them locked away in a sketchbook. I’m not sure how this website will develop but that is part of the fun. My main projects, like the things shown on this page, can be found on www.dominicwilcox.com. Hope you enjoy!

Quick Biography

Dominic Wilcox is an artist, designer, inventor and ‘thinkeruper’ who works within the territory of the ‘everyday’. Everyday objects, environments, buildings, human interaction, no area of normality is out of reach. His work, which is usually layered with an ultra dry wit, places a spotlight on the banal, always adding a new, alternative perspective on things we take for granted. His work has been exhibited worldwide and sold in shops such as Moss in New York and Selfridges London. He has been commissioned to create artwork by people such as Nike, Esquire magazine and Helena Christensen’ charities.

The design and architecture magazine Icon also features Dominic’s sketched inventions each issue under the title ‘The lost sketchbooks’.

History

After being born in Sunderland, England, Dominic Wilcox behaved as normal for approximately 18 years. He was 2nd best in his art class so on leaving school he decided that he should be a graphic designer because that seemed to be like an artist except you were paid a wage. He then did an Art and Design foundation course at Sunderland University. The Graphics section of the course was led by a conceptual artist called Charlie Holmes. He showed Dominic books full of ideas, inventions and strange things. Dominic saw that there was more to art than painting pretty pictures of fruit or rolling hills. Since then, Dominic has thought up his own ideas and strange things. To cut a long story short he did a degree, then an MA at the Royal College of Art then a creative partnership called mosleymeetswilcox before going solo at the end of 2005. He gets commissioned by people and organisations to think up interesting unique ideas, designs and artwork and he spends time doodling in his sketchbook and making things that get him excited. Website content is copyright Dominic Wilcox 2009.