26/50

welded restaurant spoons, steel wire, cast aluminum base

Paul Body

#26 is made from dozens of coffee shop spoons and a lattice of short steel rods. The base is sand cast aluminum. I see an orbiting satellite or a TD 2 tower or …

27/50

shaped poplar wood, steel cable, metal hardware

Tsukuru Matsumura

I've always like the strong industrial shapes formed by cast iron tubing joints that are bolted together. That was behind the sketch that eventually lead to #28.

28/50

painted hi-density urethane foam, automobile headliner fabric

Cameron Okamoto

An organic bone-like structure has vertical incisions that hold a series of organically shaped fins.

29/50

birch tree branches, stained maple plywood,wood foundry form base

Cera Zittlow

The birch branch "nest" was one of the earliest globe structures in the series, yet it took the longest to find its resting place as a finished piece.

30/50

repurposed nose cone, antique 1940's world globe

John Trice

There is energy when elements that were seemingly never meant to find each other unite seamlessly as one. This aerospace nose cone seemed to be waiting decades for the arrival of its analog - a forgotten globe from a Massachusetts cellar.

31/50

various repurposed wheels and fan blades, urethane, wood foundry form base

John Trice

Discarded wheels, disks and machine parts assume a different role as rings in a new rotating universe.

32/50

wood, laser cut substructure, die cut laminated map

Cameron Okamoto

Much like a map of the world would sit behind the desk of a company president in the 50s, suggesting the potential of their market, this series of four introduce additional complexity and confusion into that once simple and inspirational world motif. #1 of 4

33/50

wood, laser cut substructure, die cut laminated map

Mark Dastrup

Much like a map of the world would sit behind the desk of a company president in the 50s, suggesting the potential of their market, this series of four introduce additional complexity and confusion into that once simple and inspirational world motif. #2 of 4

34/50

wood, laser cut substructure, die cut laminated map

Mark Dastrup

Much like a map of the world would sit behind the desk of a company president in the 50s, suggesting the potential of their market, this series of four introduce additional complexity and confusion into that once simple and inspirational world motif. #3 of 4

35/50

wood, laser cut substructure, die cut laminated map

Mark Dastrup

Much like a map of the world would sit behind the desk of a company president in the 50s, suggesting the potential of their market, this series of four introduce additional complexity and confusion into that once simple and inspirational world motif. #4 of 4

36/50

repurposed wood handles, dryer lint wire/nylon brushes, steel base

Stacy Keck

Surprising how many tool handles there are in odd corners of the world. Each one carries a story on the handle with markings of wear from the tasks they’ve done and the hands that did them.

37/50

1930's steel globe, laser cut masonite base, cable

John Trice

This 1930s hand painted metal globe likely served to inspire employees in some corporate lobby. Now it sits atop a computer laser cut foundation, like Atlas Gemini, ready to relaunch.

38/50

repurposed bentwood chair backs, industrial metal filters, wet-wrapped branches

Philipp Rittermann

I started to see worlds waiting for me everywhere. This world was hidden in the backs of two wooden bar chairs.

39/50

repurposed game boards and game pieces, welded metal, wood foundry form base

Gary Allard

I was having coffee and sketching ideas at Rebecca's in North Park when I spotted a wall of old board games behind me; all full of exaggerated color and type. #39 was instantly down as a sketch and came alive exactly like it was drawn.

40/50

repurposed cardboard globe, nails, laser cut cardboard, wood foundry form base

Philipp Rittermann

I tried to dig to China from my backyard in New Jersey when I was about seven years old. The devil, the cave, the core, the fire, the truth, the failed, the garden, the smoke, the spirits, the steam, the riches. What was beneath those shallow roots?

41/50

repurposed boat propeller, architectural shock absorber, laser cut masonite, metal strainers

Mark Dastrup

My friend, automobile designer Chuck Pelly parted with his propeller so I could make #41. The base is an industrial shock absorber I carried back from Italy in a very suspicious carry-on.

42/50

pencil nubs, aluminum ruler, wood base

Paul Body

Anne Miriello had the patience (and three pencil sharpeners) to sharpen boxes of uniform pencils into #43.

43/50

metal, wood, folded world atlas, paper, laser cut corrugated cardboard

A vertical totem collage of spheres destined to be skewered together in a new configuration; sort of like a table of strangers who share a wonderful endless meal together.

44/50

repurposed shoe soles, leather, plastic, metal, rubber, wood

Carl Vanderschuit

A dozen leather shoe soles take on their new role as storytellers. Shoes were disassembled and soles reattached with shoemaker nails to an orb of poplar wood. Tap dancers, businessmen, preachers and streetwalkers share their new life together.

45/50

repurposed cardboard globe, painted urethane

Cameron Okamoto

I saw a world encased in a wind swept cocoon appearing in my sketch book. It reminded me of the work of Luigi Colani, a futuristic industrial designer from Switzerland.

46/50

repurposed cardboard globe, manzanita branch, wood base

Aaron Serafino

Burning out of its confines, a manzanita branch has no boundaries.

47/50

mahogany wood

Monica Hoover

Jagged spires of Brett Hassler veneered mahogany form a cathedral for a nesting sphere. The pattern cut into the spires was inspired by the design formed in the interlocking structure of microscopic bones.

48/50

computer numerical control pattern cut from PVC

Tom Holmberg

A graphic representation of the divisive statement of the former leader of the free world.

49/50

poured molten zinc, aluminum rods

Aluminum rods, like long hidden stalactites, reveal themselves from inside a calcified half globe.

50/50

computer numerical control pattern cut from PVC

Tom Holmberg

I remember seeing what looked to me like orange peels of the world behind the head of Walter Cronkite as he read the news during the Vietnam war. Those shapes, called gores, reappear in my drawing book repeatedly.