Lewisham Bin Waste Paper Basket
Celebrating the Lewisham Bin, on a domestic scale.
Travel blogs, restaurant reviews and publications such as Condé Nast Traveller promote neighbourhoods or areas, but often the places celebrated are generic and not locally specific or unique. This object thinks about how we can look beyond what we are being told to look at, and focus on an overlooked, local highlight that local people actually take pride in.
This overlooked icon from the 80's and 90's, is still in wide use, and is a unique object in London’s landscape, with its design and branding including it’s use the distinctive blue colour, being completely different to street bins of any other London Borough. Although sadly being slowly replaced, this is one of the few objects we see every day which defies the trend of visual uniformity and as London, becomes more generic, this is one of the few daily sightings that show a real local distinctness. This uniqueness has led to the Lewisham Bin receiving true affection among residents and frequent visitors, and this domestic scale 3D illustration or model is both a functional domestic wastepaper basket, and a celebration of a much loved part of south east London, and gives people the chance to bring part of the physical landscape in to their home.
This object is handmade from hand screen printed plywood and combines a number of interests Chris has been developing as technical ways of making work including digital drawing, laser cutting, hand woodwork, and screen printing. All these skills have been used at different stages to develop a piece of work which combines product design, sculpture, and illustration.
