London designer Dominic Wilcox is building up to Britain hosting the Olympic games this summer by nibbling his way through 30 boxes of McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes to build models of UK landmarks and icons.
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The series includes depictions of the river thames, Tower Bridge, pound coins, the white cliffs of Dover, the Union Jack flag and the queen's guards.
Top: The Queen on a coin
Above: Stonehenge
He used the orange plastic wrapper as a filter to get the appropriate lighting effect for a sunset at Stone Henge.
Above: Stonehenge
Other examples of his work on Dezeen include a smart-phone stylus that straps over your nose, coat hooks made from unwashed paint brushes and a series of sculptures that feature tiny characters perched on the hands of vintage watches.
Above: The Queen's guards
Like Dezeen, Wilcox is based in the London borough of Hackney - see our showcase of design from the area here.
Above: Tower Bridge
Photographs are by Dominic Wilcox.
Above: The Loch Ness Monster
Here's the full story from Wilcox:
It’s quite a big year for Britain with the olympics coming up soon. In celebration of this, McVitie’s challenged me to create some British themed creations using their Jaffa Cakes.
Above: The Loch Ness Monster
I took my inspiration from friends who described their strange and unique methods of eating them.
Above: The white cliffs of Dover
I started to nibble and pick away, going through 30 boxes of Jaffa Cakes to try to get shapes that fitted with my British themed ideas.
Above: The Thames
One problem I had was when I got distracted by the radio and then looked back to see I had eaten the Loch Ness monster.
Above: The Union Jack
See the video and pictures of what I came up with below.
Above: The Queen on a coin
Above: Tower Bridge
Above: Tower Bridge
