Creator of Gin & Apathy
Ed Redman creates models of classic buildings, but tiny. Think the Ghostbusters HQ but less than the length of a ruler. The process begins with photographing the building or using Google Street View. Redman then draws the building in Adobe Illustrator. “I pretty much sit in Illustrator and kind of map it in my head,” he says. “I try and pull it together in a 3D fashion and then flatten it.”
Redman, based in Melbourne, Australia, is a co-founder of design marketplace Redbubble and custom t-shirt printing company Das Tshirt Automat (DTA). He started the wooden desk model project, Gin & Apathy, after stumbling across a laser cutter at DTA. "I found it to be the most fascinating machine I’ve ever tried to use,” he says. “It’s kind of like being given a pencil and a blank piece of paper for the first time. ‘Oh, what can I draw?’”
The models are made from bamboo. Redman describes as, “Flatpacked distractions in a batshit world”.
Gin & Apathy kits