Creating what’s around me was getting fairly boring, following Simon Stalenhag’s work, I’ve been considering how I can reinvent things around my room in the style that I want to create. I decided to take the bin that I have in my room and updating it to the future. Because of this, I added all sorts of science fiction clichés, such as indented details, a screen, some buttons and tubes, stuff that can add to the theme without serving any sort of real purpose.
I started with making the bin out of a cylinder, adding the bevelled details to it as I went along. I then considered how the bin could be upgraded to fit tones of the future. As mentioned, buttons, indented lids, screens and some sort of extraction feature all emphasise that this is something taken from the present day and modified to fit a future requirement. This could be something related to processing waste in a more efficient way or a way of measuring a users’ carbon footprint in terms of how much waste they create and how much waste goes to landfill or is incinerated etc.
I used a lot of processes in the creation of this, such as extrusions, bridges, bevelling as well as removing parts of shapes and reforming them to make new solids.