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Finally the printable version is available as an E-craftbook. Print these repeatable units on paper (old or new paper). Requirements: A printer, scissors, paper glue and time to relax.

A wall display for small treasure. A modern day version of the old recycled Type Case drawers that people hang on their walls and keep small memories in. The E-craftbook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and the all important printable templates for making the JW 002 wall display in various sizes.

Workshop at The Museum of Copenhagen for Culture Night 2011.

Fantasy Design in the Community workshop, Gent, Belgium 2011.

The download includes a printable template in two different sizes. These can be printed on various types of paper, old and new.

Extracts from book.

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INVITATION

THE MUSEUM OF COPENHAGEN, VESTERBROGADE 59.

My Dialogue stools will be finding a home amongst the trash at The Museum of Copenhagen’s exhibitionabout trash in the city. On the night of the opening, coinciding with Copenhagen Culture Night, I shall be running a Neo TrampArt making workshop. Here my milk carton wall displays will be on show and people passing through the museum will be able to cut up milk cartons and contribute to a new wall display. Plus make their own mini wall displays using left over brochures that have been collecting dust in the museum store rooms.

TRASH OPENING – FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2011 AT 2.30 PM

CULTURE NIGHT – FRIDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2011 AT 19 – 21 PM

Washing of milk cartons collected from the coffee shops around Enghave Plads in Copenhagen; Kaffeplantagen, kaffeslabberasen and The One With No Name. Along with some much appreciated help from the Business Creatives from KEA D&B.

Nearly finished

Cutting of earlier Water Drop from 2007. I forgot how long it took.

Old account books that went to waste that year.

old routes never travelled.

Dialogue stool from 2009.

I have heard about an old rural principal, how farmers always came home with a stone in hand. In this way, over time, their field is cleared of one more stone while providing one more stone for building.
Over a period of a few weeks, I picked up discarded chairs while on my way home, slowly collecting the many legs that I needed.

The chair was originally for an exhibition, for which I had deadlines. As time ran out, I got on my bike and went and collected up the remaining legs. This was the last trip I made on this particular bike, as it went missing later that same day and since then, I have not come home with any more legs for building.

Information from The Museum of Copenhagen. http://www.copenhagen.dk/en/

Mayors Pia Allerslev, Culture and Leisure Administration and Ayfer Baykal, Technical and Environmental Administration, will open the exhibition. Musician Martin Ullits Dahl will perform a work composed especially for the occasion: An interaction of real sounds recorded at rubbish dumps and incineration plants. As a part of the performance children of all ages are invited to create music on home made instruments made from trash. There will be served “studenterbrød”, rubbish dump sweets, snacks, organic juice and beer.

Trash is integral to city life. We live daily with and alongside rubbish. We reuse and recycle, we throw away and scrap. TRASH! is an exhibition for children and adults on how Copenhagen throughout  the ages has treated it’s rubbish and waste. Take a dive with a dumpster into the depths of a supermarket rubbish bin, hear city teenagers speak of their own consumption, tell us your own throw away stories and meet the dust man on his early morning route through Copenhagen.

Enter a universe of city rubbish, dump stories and trashed building materials.

After the commissioned Diamond Lamp for ‘Billiedskolen’ and the ‘Wednesday 5 o’clock Class’ making their own lamps, their work caught the attention of ’Fantasy Design in community’ resulting in an invite to talk at the Fantasy Design Conference on design Education – ‘Involving Children and young people in designing the future’. Held in an old monastery in Gent, Belgium. I was asked to talk about the theme ’Design for all’ so I spoke about my desirers to be Robyn Hood.

Link to Billiedskol i Tvillinghallen 

Link to Fantasy Design in Community

‘Billedskolen i Tvillingehallen’ commissioned the making of a Diamond Shade for their meeting room.  I based the lamp on traditional landscape painting,  (rectangle landscape, green at the bottom, moody sky at the top). Besides coloured paper I used old books about planes, so parts of planes now fly through the sky. In referance to the history of Tvillingehallen, the building was once a slaughterhouse, I found an appropriate book and used it to make the sky a little overcast and to dot the landscape with cattle.

The Art School is for children and young adults who come into the school on different days of the week. I set up the Silent Circus in the entrance and slowly made the lamp, spread over a week, so all  the students got to see the lamp in progress. I then had to take it home to finish it, these things are not quick to make, plus the children kept interrupting me.

Besides me making a lamp for the school, I also introduced the JW006 E-craftbook to the Wednesday 5 o’clock class, who all made their-own Diamond Shade lamps over the following couple of Wednesdays. I’ll post the results of that seperatly.

Almost forgot, this lamp can be downloaded as an E-craftbook, you can make your own.

http://www.walton.dk/walton/lamps/diamond-shades/jw-006-diamond-shade-e-craftbook/

Handmade Wall Display by Jeremy Walton, 2009. E-craftbook jw 003

These wall displays use the e-craftbook jw 003 (Soon available to download and make. Or these need a home for slightly more than $10.)

Exhibited at:

Copenhagen Culture Night 2009.

Made Personally by Jeremy Walton. Mooment shop.

Lampshade made as part of the Made personally exhibition at Mooment shop. This lampshade uses the e-craftbook jw 006 (available to down load and make your own at designyoumake.com, just $10. Or this one needs a home for slightly more than $10.)

My subject for this shade is an Iceberg. I done some in-depth study of icebergs (couple of photos on google images) The diamond shade lends itself to the form of the iceberg and I collected papers that are white, pure white and super white for above the water line. For below the water line and deeper inside the iceberg, I collected blue paper, milk cartons and the monthly Map magazine by architect David Garcia.

The diamond shade principal, followed on from the original Neo Tramp Art lamp shade, but i would say the diamond lamp shade is closer to being Neo Tramp Art, the diamond cut was inspired by the Tramp Art notch and layer technique. What pleases me with this lamp is that like Original tramp art the person making has freedom to express their own form and colour using the cut and layer technique. They are not restricted by a specific form decided by me. They have a process to work with and what they do with it is up to them.

Thank you to David Garcia for the Map map, which firstly, was the right sort of blue I needed and secondly, appropriately about Antarctica. So looking closely within the lamp, one can find small drawings of penguins, people dressed for arctic conditions, snow flakes and even photos of icebergs.

Exhibited at:

Copenhagen Culture Night 2009.

Made Personally by Jeremy Walton. Moomentshop.

Handmade wall display by Jeremy Walton, 2009. E-craftbook jw 002
Each quarter measurers 50 cm x 50 cm x 7 cm. 100 hundread units.

Wall Display using the DesignYouMake E-craftbook jw 002 available to down load and make yourself. (available soon). This is a wall display made up of a single unit that can be rotated to create a repeat pattern. Here I have printed the A5 cutout direct onto paper from a year account book, a Danish year account book, which is yellow and green.

Exhibited at:

Copenhagen Culture Night 2009.

Made Personally by Jeremy Walton. Moomentshop.

JW oo6. Diamond Shade. A lampshade of repetitive diamonds.

The E-craftbook, JW oo6 Diamond Shade, presents the directions about how to build the basic inner structure of the Diamond shade, plus tips and ideas on how to continue building the shade in a random or symmetrical way.

Also includes the all important templates and printable sheets that can be used to make the single diamonds from A4 coloured papers or waste paper and packaging.

Random or symmetrical?

You should decide this before starting. You can either sculpt your shade randomly, adding diamonds however you like, here and there. Or you can build the shade in a symmetrical fashion, where you repeat the same pattern. It is up to you what that pattern is.

The diamonds can be added in all sorts of ways, sometimes it might involve turning the diamond around and over several times to find out where it fits, but it will fit.

White, coloured or recycled?

You can shape the shade as you like and you can also use different colour paper. The yellow, orange and red shade used within the E-craftbook is the start of ‘Cannon Smoke’, an installation I made based on human cannonball acts. Various grey coloured paper will eventually be added for the smoke. (It was made  in a circus tent)

Use plain white paper or waste papers, such as old cereal boxes, milk cartons or magazine covers. It is also possible to use a small amount of thinner paper, but you need to make sure you are adding enough stiffness and strength to your structure. The outer edges can be thinner.
Example screen shots from the 29 page JW oo6 Diamond Shade E-craftbook

Includes: 29 page pdf with: inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and tips.

Including two printable pages:

• A4 printable template for making Diamonds from waste and large format paper.

• An A4 printable sheet that can be cut up into 7 diamonds.

Materials:

• Paper, recommend min. 160 grammes.
• Suitable Glue, staples or sticky tape.

Tools and Techniques:

• Cutting Knife  or scissors.
• Cut and paste.

$10 Download and make

‘Design is knowledge, Craftsmanship is a state of mind.’

‘JW oo6 Diamond Shade’ can be made from used milk cartons, cereal boxes, magazine covers or any found waste paper that is more than 160 grammes thick. It is not an intention of mine to find ways to recycle materials, as waste materials should be recycled in larger quantities and used again in industry.

But when you see these materials used, an appreciation of their beauty and value as a usable material is gained. This all helps people to appreciate a little more of what they normally discard as waste.

I want to include people in the process, to inspire people to make things themselves and subsequently appreciate such home-made craftsmanship.

Through making things themselves people will better appreciate, materials and craftsmanship of other objects.

Inspiration

It was after making a lampshade named ‘Neo Tramp Art’ at SoupaNatural, a soup bar in Copenhagen, that Nicolia and Kristian invited me to join their Circus tent, to make an installation during the Roskilde music festival.

Having always dreamed of joining the circus and feeling it about time to take my hobby explorations into a new realm, I joined the circus a ‘Silent Circus’ celebrating making.

The single diamond element came about from working with the square form of the milk carton and folding postcards into squares.

Traditional Tramp Art is created by cutting notches along the edge of wood and layering the thin layers of wood. The notches create small repetitive diamonds along the edge of the wood.

I find the love and dedication put into the traditional Tramp Art pieces charming and endearing. It was through experimenting with cutting square tubes that I worked out the ‘Diamond Cut’. Unlike the ‘JW oo5 Neo Tramp Art lamp shade’, the Diamond shade allows the maker more creative freedom with colour and form, similar to that of traditional Tramp Art. It also requires dedication and love.

Technique

Neo Tramp Art, cut and paste.

I would say the diamond is based on the ideology behind Traditional Tramp Art and made using available materials and tools that are freely available today.

I have worked out a single unit that can be used as a three dimensional repeat pattern. It is basically the good old, cut and paste method.

The lampshades are made by a repetitive diamond that is cut and joined together, similar to the tramp art notch and layer technique.

It also requires the Tramp Art techniques of repetition, dedication and love. Making the shade is a celebration, so the fact they take ages to make is a bonus, why rush a good thing.

Best wishes and kind hellos – Jeremy

Installation by Jeremy Walton June 2009. Roskilde Festival

Going along with the Circus theme, I studied in detail (a couple of online photos) Cannon Smoke from human cannon ball acts. I attempted to recreate this using the lampshade diamonds made of craft paper, waste paper and good old milk cartons.

The majority was made on site using a cutting knife, a staple gun and with help thanks to my festive festival helpers. The result was a battle against the wind and humidity. some amount of smoke built up over the duration of the festival. I did manage to test and learn a lot about the diamond shade and the E-craftbook which presents how to make your own diamonds into smoke, candyfloss or what ever takes your fancy.

I started with an explosive centre, which aptly vanished late one night leaving a cloud of smoke.

Bang!

I don’t have many photos due to my camera having a battery life of about 5 minutes. I have filmed the development of the smoke and shall include that at some point.

The story of the human cannon ball. After 40 years in the business he had the accuracy to propel himself into a bathtub from 300 meters. One final night he over loaded his cannon and created a cloud of smoke that took eight days to clear. It was some years later that a silver sequined leotard was found two miles away in the local duck pond. Some people say he was attempting to out perform the new sensational trapeze artists, while others say, it was a perfect shot from two miles and a smoke screen to cover up his disappearance on the same night that the bakers wife left town.

Unlike my standard Panel Shades these ‘Virgin Trapese Shades’ use salvaged lampshade frames for the metal ring and the rest of the old lampshade frame remains hanging down within the new lampshade.

I made these in SoupaNaturals circus tent at the 2009 Roskilde Festival. The shades were made on site with a knife and hole-punch (A Silent Circus). Other than the salvaged shade frames they are made of selected waste paper from a local printer, plus some Polyester ‘Faber’ strips from panel curtains.

The ‘Panel Shades’ take a little while to plan out and make, but I am enjoying the ability they give to make such individual pieces, so get in touch if you want to commission one or two.