Giles Miller covers Clerkenwell Billboards with glass scales
Giles Miller Studio has created a series of four glass-tile sculptures to help visitors navigate this year's Clerkenwell Design Week in London (24-26 May). Composed of over 8,000 hand-crafted glass tiles in vibrant matte and metallic colours, the four structures, collectively named Billboards, are located between the festival's main venues.
24 May 2016
| Lisa Grant
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Giles Miller Studio has created a series of four glass-tile sculptures to help visitors navigate this year's Clerkenwell Design Week in London (24-26 May).
Each is decorated to create a swoosh, directing visitors to the next exhibition on the trail. The sculptures can also be illuminated from behind, so they can aid wayfinding at all hours of the day.
"It's a plywood lattice structure, and there's strip lights that light the tiles from the inside," Giles Miller told Dezeen. "Each individual tile has been set and programmed on CAD [software] by myself." "The tiles are closed off at quite a steep angle, and where we've wanted to create a sort of swooshing shape, the tiles gradually open up to allow more light through," he continued.
Each of the billboards was created in collaboration with British Ceramic Tile, and are located at key Clerkenwell Design Week destinations including Kingsway Place, Clerkenwell Close and Clerkenwell Road.
This is the third time Giles Miller has designed an installation for Clerkenwell Design Week. Previously, he clad a historic archway in 20,000 wooden hexagons and positioned a target of reflective pixels in front of a medieval gate.
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