![]() ![]() Thwaites is a laugh-out-loud-funny but thoughtful guide through his own adventures, touching provocatively on ideas as far-ranging as medieval metallurgy, sustainability, mass production and our "throwaway" consumer culture. He mines his own iron ore to make into steel (and smelts it in a microwave), pillages an abandoned mica mine, and puzzles out making plastic, copper wire and nickel connectors. Thomas Thwaites, a graduate student at London's Royal College of Art, sets out to build a toaster from scratch - not just an object that toasts bread, but one that aesthetically and mechanically replicates the ubiquitous $6 drugstore toaster.Īfter dissecting a live toaster to uncover its 400 separate parts, he embarks on a project that takes nine months, thousands of dollars and nearly 2,000 miles of travel. Easily my favorite book this year, The Toaster Project should be required reading for artists, designers, consumers and anyone who has ever bought or thrown away a toaster. ![]()
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