PUBLISHED 8 Nov 2010 - 4:39pm
Designer Paul Cocksedge has created the interactive installation Kiss, which invites two people to activate a lighting sequence on Covent Garden's 50ft Christmas Tree by kissing under the mistletoe. The moment is marked by 50,000 red and white LEDs and 100 strobe lights which illuminate the Piazza. The launch night on Nov 11 features a performance by Pineapple Dance Studios and a kiss auction with a celebrity (from 6.30pm, auction 7pm).
It's not the first time Cocksedge has explored the idea of human-made circuitry. His lamp Watt? required someone to complete a circuit by drawing... More
PUBLISHED 10 Aug 2010 - 1:04pm
The extremely talented Paul Cocksedge is creating this year's Size + Matter commission, the magical Drop for the London Design Festival, a outsize coin 'which has fallen to Earth from a giant's palm'. He's also working on an installation A Gust of Wind for the Festival's V&A programme. The Festival recently spoke to him about both pieces – and about his methods. This was one bit that reveals something of his processes:
You've talked about the importance of maintaining a climate of freedom in design. Where did that start for you?It's from the Royal College, I suppose. We weren't told to do... More
PUBLISHED 30 Jul 2010 - 7:13am
For one day only, Paul Cocksedge is creating a unique piece of work for the London Design Festival as part of the V&A's Friday Late programme. A Gust of Wind will consist of 'three hundred curvaceous pieces of Corian® ', formed to represent a stack of pages that have been blown into the air. Each piece, engraved and handmade by Cocksedge, will be given away on 24 September, from 18.00 to 22.00. More soon.
Cocksedge, one of London's most consistently innovative designers, is also currently working on Drop, a Size + Matter installation for the London Design Festival. More here
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