Doorknobs, Bath Plugs and Flamingoes
This is an ongoing project of mine which highlights the endless supply of readymade objects and their presence in day-to-day life. The project was partly developed out of a frustration with the constant need to design new specialist objects. As a protest against mainstream consumerism, it encourages people to be more resourceful and inventive with things that already exist ad hoc.
My observational research, adapted objects and developed products are displayed in a archetypal book of photographs, text and drawings. It includes images of readymades in new contexts, some more developed into functioning products, and others are at most, sculptural amalgamations which will hopefully challenge people’s preconceptions of designed objects.
I also have a fascination of mass-produced objects for their efficiency and stereotypical value. Therefore, the project evidences my observations of the ways they are made, their materials and forms. While some of the objects in the book present themes of practical up-cycling and reclaiming, others are shown in a more idiosyncratic light to help suggest how an object can be used and valued in a different way. The book is designed to encourage a similar ad hoc way of thinking for other designers and to see the made world from a different perspective.
Email: louis.eager1@gmail.com
Louis Eager is a product and furniture designer who tends to art-direct his projects with the use of photography and drawing to communicate ideas. Describing himself as an Adhocist and often using readymades or found objects, he challenges the way people perceive the made world through context and appropriation.