zachary eastwood bloom: digital decay

‘digital decay’ by zachary eastwood-bloom images courtesy of zachary eastwood-bloom

london based designer and recent royal college of art graduate zachary eastwood-bloom has created ‘digital decay’. the collection explores the theme of two different universes that equally follow the laws of physics: one material, with mass and volume and the other a mathematical construct assembled from binary information. stemming from experimentation with digital terrain generation software, the surface and form unite to analyze the relationship between the real and the virtual and the digital and the handmade.

‘digital decay’ chair

the ongoing series examines these juxtaposing characteristics, disrupting the function of the object with a digitized polygonal surface. ultimately, the works aim to question the relationship society currently has with information in the digital age – the quantity and accessibility both aiding, overburdening and consuming us in the process.

the pieces then become a paradox whereby they question their own existence as they can not be made without the assistance of digital tooling, further highlighting our increasing reliance on such technology.

‘digital decay’ chair in progress

detail of table before being assembled

detail

milling

technical drawings of ‘digital decay’ table