Design No. 306: James Bond 007 - Bento Box for a Married Man
atelier ying, Tokyo
I choose to stray dangerously close to non-art, where there is no exaltation of anything. But when you are so close to crossing the line into silliness, there must be something to pull the daydreamer back to serious art. Is there? Till that happens, I'm enjoying great freedom.
The governmental functional quality of Ian Fleming's office settings for M and for Bond in the 007 section are reinstituted and reinterpreted in this design. It is also given a sophisticated twist as a well-thought out offering by Q section, for a typical Asian salaryman's "lunch made by the loving wife" bento, made by his new "cover" wife, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, but with a fantasy Q flair, in miniature.
A modern Tokyo-style cladding encloses a smaller plain concrete two-level building. The top floor is M's office and Moneypenny's smaller work area. An outer staircase connects down to the ground floor Asian garage that houses a replica of the Aston Martin car which is made into a typical Japanese rail journey bento box with the following features excerpted from Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (film version) for a romantic lunch for James and Aki, just 'carnally' married.
The actual Aston Martin Bento will be the subject (deliciously) of a separate design upload, but for now my notes detail the following:
1. Condiment containers in 3 front/rear headlight areas, water is stored in the 4th rear headlight
2. Cigars and perforated towelette as a single day humidifier inside the front hood.
3. Ejector seat dry ice ring (add water from container of rear headlight (see above) (flash ring) contains a martini to shake before drinking.
4. Leica Red Dot cap disposable camera (please see my design no. 166 for another disposable camera design)
5. The license plates change as you lift out each food tray, like the changing signs of a busy Tokyo stand-up sushi bar.
6. The rear bulletproof shield holds warm towelettes and a match holder for lighting cigars.
7. The cuisine of the bento is kaiseki cuisine but with the uniform flavors of Japanese fast food but maybe with the addition of aphrodisiac foods of the 1950's, like oysters.
Part architectural model, part functional bento lunch tray, part tourist snapshot camera. This should be a perk to an otherwise boring day for a senior government man in the administrative 007 section.
Dedicated to Akiko Wakabayashi.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2016 by David Lo.
Design No. 306: James Bond 007 - Bento Box for a Married Man
atelier ying, Tokyo
I choose to stray dangerously close to non-art, where there is no exaltation of anything. But when you are so close to crossing the line into silliness, there must be something to pull the daydreamer back to serious art. Is there? Till that happens, I'm enjoying great freedom.
The governmental functional quality of Ian Fleming's office settings for M and for Bond in the 007 section are reinstituted and reinterpreted in this design. It is also given a sophisticated twist as a well-thought out offering by Q section, for a typical Asian salaryman's "lunch made by the loving wife" bento, made by his new "cover" wife, played by Akiko Wakabayashi, but with a fantasy Q flair, in miniature.
A modern Tokyo-style cladding encloses a smaller plain concrete two-level building. The top floor is M's office and Moneypenny's smaller work area. An outer staircase connects down to the ground floor Asian garage that houses a replica of the Aston Martin car which is made into a typical Japanese rail journey bento box with the following features excerpted from Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (film version) for a romantic lunch for James and Aki, just 'carnally' married.
The actual Aston Martin Bento will be the subject (deliciously) of a separate design upload, but for now my notes detail the following:
1. Condiment containers in 3 front/rear headlight areas, water is stored in the 4th rear headlight
2. Cigars and perforated towelette as a single day humidifier inside the front hood.
3. Ejector seat dry ice ring (add water from container of rear headlight (see above) (flash ring) contains a martini to shake before drinking.
4. Leica Red Dot cap disposable camera (please see my design no. 166 for another disposable camera design)
5. The license plates change as you lift out each food tray, like the changing signs of a busy Tokyo stand-up sushi bar.
6. The rear bulletproof shield holds warm towelettes and a match holder for lighting cigars.
7. The cuisine of the bento is kaiseki cuisine but with the uniform flavors of Japanese fast food but maybe with the addition of aphrodisiac foods of the 1950's, like oysters.
Part architectural model, part functional bento lunch tray, part tourist snapshot camera. This should be a perk to an otherwise boring day for a senior government man in the administrative 007 section.
Dedicated to Akiko Wakabayashi.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2016 by David Lo.