Concepts! Concepts!

All of John Gilbert’s work involves some degree of conceptualizing. Listed below are a number of examples.

Client: Govt. of BC
Project: Develop an interactive, entertaining water sculpture.
Solution: "UFO-H2O"... a favorite of all ages at Vancouver’s Expo 86.
Involvement: Concept, design, supervision

Client: Govt. of BC
Project: Develop a theme figure for the main hall of the Discovery Pavilion, Expo 86.
Solution: A 10-meter-tall kinetic "inventor" representing BC’s technological community.
Involvement: Concept, design, fabrication

Client: Govt. of Alberta.
Project: To entertain visitors to the Calgary Winter Olympic Information Center
Solution: A group of 15 animated figures celebrating the athletes’ participation.
Involvement: Concept, design, fabrication.

Client: Information Canada, Ottawa
Project: Explain the workings of the Canadian Tax department.
Solution: An entertaining and inventive 50-foot line of moving figures, 4-8 ft. tall.
Involvement: Concept, design, partial fabrication.

Client: Govt. of BC
Project: Show the relationships of the work force in the province.
Solution: A giant, circus-like, floor-to-ceiling mobile, 35ft x 60ft.
Involvement: Concept, design.

Client: Nabob Coffee
Project: Create a symbolic trade show figure to introduce a new, aroma-preserving package.
Solution: "Cyranose", a robot who has an educated nose for coffee-smelling, talks to himself.
Involvement: Concept, design, fabrication

Client: Heritage Canada Fishing Museum, Steveston, BC
Project: 4 crank-driven automata, to explain problems in the fishing industry.
Solution: Four very colorful and inventive solutions that became crowd favorites.
Involvement: Concept, design, and fabrication

Client: Vancouver Art Gallery
Project: Develop a feature for the lobby that would attract donations.
Solution: A coin-operated, kinetic sculpture featuring Leonardo and Mona Lisa.
Involvement: Concept, design, fabrication.

Project: Design a unisex construction toy.
Solution: A versatile, easy-to-assemble modular doll house
Involvement: Concept and prototype fabrication

Project: Design a series of toy figures capable of multi-planar articulation.
Solution: A US-patented mechanism.
Involvement: Concept and prototype fabrication.

Client: British Columbia Insurance Corporation
Project: Create an appealing device to key their Children’s Seatbelt Campaign.
Solution: "Captain Click". Used in all print material, TV ads, schoolroom safety classes.
Involvement: Concept and model construction. Copy for folders & other material.

Client: Doubleday Publishers
Project: Design "Literary Guide" cover for James Heller’s "Something Happened."
Solution: A sculpture representing an ad executive navigating the "desert" that is his life.
Involvement: Concept and fabrication.

Client: Cosmopolitan Magazine
Project: Illustration for a story about eggs.
Solution: A mechanical hen, Gregory Peck-inspired, showing her reproductive machinery.
Involvement: Concept, fabrication, photography.

Client: Fleischman
Project: Illustration for "Egg Beaters", a low-cholesterol egg substitute.
Solution: Inside a concerned patient...a relaxed and happy man, eating scrambled eggs.
Involvement: Concept, fabrication, photography.

Client: Schaefer Beer, NY
Project:
TV commercial.
Solution: A traveling band of musicians. (Silver medal, NY International Film Festival).
Involvement:
Concept, fabrication.

Client: Mr. Lowell Lebermann, Austin, Texas.
Project: .Create a psychic portrait by combining several facets of his existence.
Solution: A one-of-a-kind, John Gilbert "Personality Portrait"
Involvement: Concept, fabrication, photography.

Project: Create a series of water-activated water fountains.
Solution: A bird with movable wings, a dog with a water turbine that wags the tail, etc.
Involvement: Concept, fabrication.

 

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