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This Just In-box: Drawing Tops by Thomas Forsyth

By Core Jr - March 6, 2009

in Object Culture

Drawing Tops designed by Thomas Forsyth. LINK

"A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle, represents many of the core ideas behind my current work. It is recognizable, un-intimidating, and invites people to interact with objects that can lead to unpredictable results, or an emergent property. Simply through indulging in the enjoyable process of spinning the top a bi-product is created. Where the pen marks the surface, a beautiful map of the experience and events that have occurred is produced. I am able to draw, but I am not particularly talented at it and yet found that, through the interaction with these objects, I have created drawings that I am more proud of than any I have done before."

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fancyfeast

15 years ago

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It's called a Doodletop.
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sunil

15 years ago

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when i was in Madrid, in Spain last month (feb 2009) i saw a similar product being sold through The Reina Sofia Museum store.
Instead of the pen you could fix various color pencils...and the wooden part (top) was colored and finished.
maybe that product was designed by Thomas Forsyth.

i don't remember the brand name it was sold under.
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CLARK

15 years ago

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These have been around for decades...
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