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Red Nose Studio produce sculptural and 3D illustrations.
I was flipping through the new Communication Arts Interactive Annual and came across these wonderfully imaginative 3-D illustrations. And thats how I found Red Nose Studios.
The name come from the style of nose that owner, Chris Sickles was known to draw. He recycles trash and makes it into art. Beer mugs come from tops of hairspray bottles, a cockpit of a plane is made from vintage electric shoe dryer. The rest is all handmade: hand drawn wallpaper, furniture made from cardboard and covered in fabric.
After everything is built, Sickles sets up a scene, lights it and photographs it. He rarely uses photoshop, never to fabricate anything, only to retouch.
While in working after college for the Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, he was helping set up an exhibition with the artist, Tim Hawkinson, who “sculpted a bird with his own fingernail clippings.” Then it clicked, Sickles got the realization that he could use any object to create his art, nothing wasted. The same ideals he had growing up on a farm.
