(Archive) Casting Standards

Haptic Signatures

There is an enormous amount of latent design that populates the handles of our contemporary consumer objects. Haptic signatures that are embedded into the tools we use everyday. Designs that are studied and iterated inorder to make an object immediately identifiable when it is picked up and touched. We can identify a Gillette razor from a Schick, just by the way it feels.

Forgotten Tableware

Casting Standards, looks to re-energize these un-stylish utensils by deploying a technique of “repair-through-collage”. This project montages existing popular handles to restore forgotten tableware. Now, when you grab the spoon for a sip of soup, you experience a pair of pliers in your hand. An uncanny experience of seeing one tool but feeling another.

Surreal Tools

We handcraft unique and unusual tableware by replacing the standard handles of cutlery with as-found objects such as screwdrivers, toothpaste tubes or hairspray cans. We build molds of these existing objects, in order to recreate them by casting recycled epoxy. Then, we mount each cast onto a piece of tableware (fork, knife, spoon etc.) becoming a surreal tool for the dinner table. The handles are objects we are all used to holding in our hands, but by recasting them onto tableware they act both familiar and strange.