Daniel Weil’s Stunningly Elegant Custom Clocks

Quick Link: Daniel Weil’s Stunningly Elegant Custom Clocks

New Work: Daniel Weil’s Clock for a Card Player

The fourth in Daniel Weil’s series of clocks has been revealed for the first time this week as part of the Making Time exhibition at Sotheby’s.

Continue reading "New Work: Daniel Weil's Clock for a Card Player"

Last Chance to See Daniel Weil’s ‘Making Time’

Daniel Weil’s Making Time exhibition ends at 4.30pm on Friday 13 January at Sotheby’s New Bond Street in London.

Daniel Weil’s ‘Making Time’ on View at Sotheby’s

A unique collection of extraordinary clocks by Daniel Weil are currently on display in a selling exhibition, Making Time, in the Wemyss Gallery at Sotheby’s New Bond Street, London. The exhibition is open daily from 9.30am to 4.30pm until 13 January.

New Work: Daniel Weil’s Clock for an Astronomer

The Clock for an Astronomer follows Clock for an Architect and Clock for an Acrobat as part of the “Matter of Time” series of unique timepieces designed by Pentagram’s Daniel Weil. The clocks are currently on display in a selling exhibition, Making Time, at Sotheby’s New Bond Street until 13 January.

“The sun is the celestial time setter, and timekeeping is its terrestrial reflection,” says Daniel Weil.

Continue reading "New Work: Daniel Weil's Clock for an Astronomer"

Daniel Weil’s Clocks Exhibited at Sotheby’s

Quick Link: Daniel Weil’s Clocks Exhibited at Sotheby’s

New Work: Daniel Weil’s Clock for an Acrobat

“Just as gravity is the medium of the acrobat, so it is the medium of ‘Clock for an Acrobat,’” says Daniel Weil. Second in a series to his “Clock for an Architect,” Weil’s latest design revisits themes that have interested him for over 25 years.

Continue reading "New Work: Daniel Weil's Clock for an Acrobat"

Daniel Weil’s Clock for an Architect Featured in Fast Company

Quick Link: Daniel Weil’s Clock for an Architect Featured in Fast Company

New Work: Clock for an Architect

Privately commissioned to create a gift for an architect, Daniel Weil created a one-of-a-kind clock that is both simple and complex. Reducing objects to their component parts has long fascinated Weil. The Radio in a Bag he created for his degree show at the Royal College of Art three decades ago is an icon of 20th century industrial design. This clock is the latest demonstration of his interest in investigating not just how objects look, but how they work.

Continue reading "New Work: Clock for an Architect"

Resetting the Doomsday Clock

This morning, the Board of Directors and the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock would be moved one minute back from five to six minutes to midnight. The group, which contains 18 Nobel laureates, cited “a more hopeful state of world affairs” in their decision to indicate the world is metaphorically one step further away from annihilation. “We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons.”

To mark this event, which was followed by an worldwide audience online and through global media outlets, Pentagram created a simple tabloid information piece virtually overnight. Printed on inexpensive newsprint, it explains the purpose of the Bulletin and the Doomsday Clock in clear language and blunt, unadorned graphics. The Clock, which was created in 1947, had since become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences. It is the focus of the Bulletin’s graphic communications effort.

This is the 19th time the Clock has been reset. The last time, in 2007, Pentagram recommended the group adopt the Clock as its symbol, and created standards for its use. In the three years since, the Bulletin community has grown considerably. This publication’s clear statement of purpose is a indication of the group’s maturity and confidence as it moves into its second 50 years, and an invitation to join the global effort to turn back the Clock.

A look inside the piece after the jump.

Continue reading "Resetting the Doomsday Clock"