No surprise, perhaps, but we find ourselves coveting these magnificent wooden model ships created by PostlerFerguson, a London-based design consultancy. The series includes the liquefied gas tanker Arctic Princess, the supertanker TI Asia, and our personal favorite, the Emma Maersk, the world's largest container ship.
The folks at PostlerFerguson are obviously kindred spirits:
Behind the sheer gigantic complexity and abstraction of the global logistic system hides an intriguing beauty of radical functionality and almost organic, nerve-like organisation. We aim to translate its machine protagonists into a very familiar format of classic wooden toys and objects. Wooden toys were on the height of success in the middle of the last century and quickly got pushed aside by a tsunami of cheap plastic toys and now barely occupy a niche segment.
The Wooden Toy Ship mini-series is about reintroducing a sense of the grandeur of current technological feats to the wooden toy. The quality of the materials, reduced aesthetic and sense of technological optimism draw on the classic language of wood toys, while the updated subject matter introduces essential aspects of global modernism into the home.
In an email to Telstar Logistics, PostlerFerguson tells us they plan to offer these ships for sale later this year, at one-half the size of the protoypes shown here. But whenever they're ready for retail, let the record show that we're quite ready to reach for our wallets.
Images: PostlerFerguson
Don't tell little Jack but Santa has his eye on christmas this year. Nice find!!
Posted by: John | 28 September 2010 at 03:12 PM
I want a RoRo auto carrier.
Posted by: Randolph R Ruiz | 28 September 2010 at 08:23 PM