photo by matthew booth

designer jorge manes aimed to inject some fun into the automated nature of mass-production with his
project ‘my own factory’. the project was inspired by manes’ recent trip to china, where he saw how
mechanized factory work was. he explains, ‘factories are turned into places where people lose their own
identities; the boundaries between machines and humans are no longer clear’. this gave birth to ‘my own
factory’, ‘a conceptual project that questions the boundaries between playing and working’. the idea uses
rotational moulds placed inside metal balls. once resin is poured inside the ball is sealed. taking a cue from
the game of bowling, workers are encouraged to throw the ball, spinning it round and round. once the
game is over, the mould is opened and a finished product is removed. the unusual objects created with the
‘rotobowling’ process ‘communicate the freedom of the process that is behind them, and the transformation
of a factory into a more human place.’

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photo by matthew booth




photo by matthew booth