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Made You Look: Nikola Tamindzic
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April 2008
Made You Look: Changethethought
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March 2008
Made You Look: Wilfrid Wood
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Made You Look: Wilfrid Wood

"Trot On," Wilfrid Wood © 2008, all rights reserved.

"Shibuya," Wilfrid Wood © 2008, all rights reserved.

"Vamos," Wilfrid Wood © 2008, all rights reserved.

Unpainted sculpture rests on table in Wood's Fish Island studio.

Wilfrid Wood, hard at work in his Fish Island studio (London).

Characters wait to be colorized.

Characters at rest in the sun.

Sketches for Wood's "Charlie" sculpture.

Assorted conceptual sketches.

More assorted conceptual sketches.

Made You Look: Wilfrid Wood

When he turned 30, Wilfrid Wood had an epiphany. “I was fed up with being a mediocre graphic designer,” says the East London-based artist. “[I also realized that] if I carried on going to the publishing office every day I would have gone mental.” That was nearly a decade ago. Since then Wood has shed his office job where he worked doing layout and design for an encyclopedia company, a task he doesn’t regret leaving behind. He then actively pursued a new creative path, which led him to sculpture. But not abstract, oddly shaped sculptures that people stare at and ponder while sipping wine and adjusting their cable-knit sweaters. No, Wood turned the notion of expressive sculpture on its ear, injecting vivid color and sublime characterization in a manner uniquely his own: He created an entire world.

Published March 28th, 2008 in

Interviews