DesignYouMake

JW 001 WallDisplay – Ecraftbook

Designed by Jeremy Walton, 2007.
 $6
DesignYouMake E-craftbook presenting the ‘download and make’ JW WallDisplay. The E-craftbook presents the inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide and the all important templates for making one unit from nine ‘Tetra Rex’ milk cartons.

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 unit, made up of nine milk cartons, can be added to endlessly with further units, allowing the wall display to grow and grow, allowing you to store and display small memories.
 
“The result is quite stunning, if I don’t say so myself. It started out with the Water Drop for the SE exhibition and wondering if I could use a technical 3d computer program to sculpt milk cartons?  It was a hunch, i did not know quite how it would look. The result has been more than satisfactory for me.
You don’t see something like this in shops, or if you did it would be unaffordable. Such an object would be almost impossible to manufacture in relation to what it is as a functional object. In contrast to the result, it is reasonably simple to make for anyone that can cut along a line. Start to add more units and the relief pattern creates a very impressive wall display.” – Jeremy Walton

 
 
Example screen shots from the 26 page JW WallDisplay E-craftbook

Includes: 26 page pdf with: inspiration, technique, simple making step by step guide, tips and nine printable templates.

Materials:

• Milk cartons of the 7 cm x 7cm Tetra Rex variety (9 milk cartons needed for one unit)
• Sticky tape

Tools and Techniques:

• Pen and scissors
• Drawing around templates
• Cutting out
• Alignment
• Numbering
• Sticky tape

‘Design is knowledge, craftsmanship is a state of mind.’
For me this object really helps to prove a point, the cutting does not have to be spot on, the milk cartons join together at the front and most discrepancies in cutting accuracy are pushed to the back, leaving the front edges to line up reasonably well.
It does take a bit of openness to appreciate homemade craftsmanship and you may have to step above what you are used to seeing in glossy magazines. This object actually makes all that quite easy to do. There will be some gaps and human differences, but these give each its own unique sense of life. Everyone who has been around my place and seen them, are dumbfounded at how beautiful milk cartons actually are. They once thought that them big bin fillers where common everyday rubbish. When in fact, when clean, they are high-density card with a cleanable surface coating.

The units can be attached to the wall or just stood on the floor or on a shelf as an object. You can also use it laid flat as a pot for pens or growing seeds etc, but if you visit this site again soon you might be able to download a new version, especially developed for acting as a seed tray or desk box.
Rumour has it, that a wall full of them would act as sound proofing. Probably for sound going out, rather than in?
Try calculating roughly how many milk cartons you will need before getting any big ideas.  Send me a photo if you ever get anywhere near to filling a whole wall. It is designed in a way that you make it nine cartons at a time. Trust me, after making the ‘Water drop’  with near to 500 milk cartons, I know how much space empty milk cartons can take up. It also amazes me, how the danish landscape remains so flat.
Best wishes and kind hellos – Jeremy