Magnet art~the joy of being invited to play and create art your way...
This sample was made for Adshel's Wellington office as a mixed collage of their clients.
When ever possible, we salvage the magnets from expired mail outs of promotional items.
The frames are made from sheet metal off cuts so the artworks will vary in size depending on what's available.
This artwork is from off cuts of Wellington based poster campaigns that had been kindly commissioned into stationery.
An initiative made possible with the assistance of Adshel's Team Wellington duo, Ron and Phil.
Marmite fans look away. This one got made for Adshel's HQ in Australia.
Here's the Vegemite's campaign posters it was made from.
The notebooks are die cut out of the posters and
much like a cookie cutter you get left with an outline that results in a pile of off cuts.
Off cuts that were calling out to be re-used too.
This one was made from a World of Wearable Art campaign poster that had been re-arranged so half was as per the campaign
and the rest was the garment all mixed up and waiting to be re-created.
This one was titled 'Weather'. It's made up of several campaign poster off cuts using only block colours in various shades.
The inspiration came from listening to a Dharma talk whereby a woman spoke of a time after her divorce when she felt
really
low and removed from all
that was familiar. She was holding it together but on seeing her teacher and mentor,
she burst into
tears. He said nothing and just put his hand on hers.
She continued to
cry
and he sat
with her.
After a
while he leant over
and whispered "Weather". It was just weather and it would pass.
The text 'you' was added to reflect on the habit of seeing the grass as being greener elsewhere.
The light reflects off the galvanised steel and moves with you as you walk past.
Easy enough to create a completely different, more industrial look by using less magnets and exposing more of the steel.
Up to you~play away.
PS. The above design has since been sold but there are sufficient off cuts left to create another version
using various
shades of green as a nice place to rest your eyes when stuck indoors.
If interested, email hello@recycled.co.nz
Happy to work on smaller artworks too. Here's a little fun one made for Adshel:
This test sample was created for Adshel from various off cuts.
They were soon re-arranged to amuse and that is how the concept was given the nod. Sweet!
Below are some other examples of smaller artworks made using dated brochure stock:
These little gift sets were made up and donated to help raise funds at the Green Party's annual conference.
This little gift set was made up as a memento of the sales campaign for 188 Aro Rd, in Wellington. Marketed
as the
cutest cottage by Tommy's, one box held chocolates and the other, the magnets of the image
featured in their
fortnightly catalogue as a keepsake memento for the seller.
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Lycra goodness giftsets were made from dated catalogues for various bike events.
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And a few more for fanciers of red bikes and brown bikes.
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And orange bikes and...
Getting back on track after all that lycra, here's an example of little magnet giftsets made for Te Papa
from their dated brochure stock and Adhsel posters.
These butterfly magnets are made out of computer keyboard matrix and USB cable wire.
Available as a set of 3 different sizes.
At night with a torch, you can amuse yourself and the kids by making the wing shadows move up and down to simulate flying.
If you'd like to see a little video of this in action, email hello@recycled.co.nz
