DEAN GIBSON & JON PRYER
KINETIC FOOD SCULPTURE
Would you like your next event to be unforgettable? Something your guests will leave talking about for weeks later? Something that will inspire both official media and viral social media coverage? Imagine an elephant made of chocolate – the elephant in the room everyone’s talking about. Or a bird with flapping wings made of pastry, sitting in a chocolate nest. Or something that is reflective of your event’s particular theme, or your brand?
WORLD FIRST
Dean Gibson is a pastry chef and chocolatier. Jon Pryer is an industrial designer. Together they make the ultimate ‘moving food’ sculpture team. Their famous steampunk-inspired robotic rhinoceros The BoneShaker was unveiled at the 2017 Smooth Festival of Chocolate at The Rocks (August 2017). With a total of 149 working parts, 20 moving parts were driven by one force, which then moved the other components. It was the first moving chocolate sculpture in the world.
Boneshaker – Complete at Smooth Festival of Chocolate from Fivespice Creative on Vimeo.
MORE ON THE ARTISTS
Dean and Jon are no strangers to competition pressure, or winning awards. Dean is a former coach and manager of Team Pastry Australia and a member of the Australian Gelato Team competing in the 2018 Gelato World Cup in Italy In February. He was executive pastry chef at Rockpool in Sydney for many years, working under Neil Perry, and has been a guest on MasterChef twice. Jon has won 17 industrial design awards, including an award in 2018 for unique golf buggy. Jon has a wide scope of product development, including: transport, medical products, exhibitions and props, sporting goods, furniture and toys.
DESIGN PROCESS
Jon often creates some conceptual drawings, then 3D moving replicas out of timber. Parts are drawn in CAD, Inedible prototype models are first made using a 3D CAD modelling program, then the food version is created. Jon and Dean create their own high-grade silicone chocolate moulds and 3D printed edible parts. Sometimes parts are machine-cut using a Computer Numerical Control/CNC router (compared to traditionally sculpted chocolate it’s like NASA precision versus chainsaw carving). No glue is used.
MAKE CONTACT
Dean Gibson: 0413 043 031
W: www.deangibsonpastrychef.com
Jon Pryer: 0404 687 681
E: jon@neoindustrialdesign.com.au
W: www.neoindustrialdesign.com.au
(website is industrial design work only)
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