client

A collaboration between IBM centre for Innovations UK and Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, London.

brief

Conceive and produce an artifact for a collective exhibition about TRENDS

creative line

The paradox of trends that live on attention but fade out when they get too much...

conception and production

Basil Thuillard as a project leader in a team of five:
> conception and design of an artifact
> production of this artifact

output

The .thing artifact.

A monolyth that attracts and invites attention, then fades out when the centre of attention...

Part of the TRENDMANIA exhibition at the Lethaby Gallery, Holborn, London (UK)

date

2002

IBM-CMS TRENDMANIA exhibition