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Apollo, the Olympian god of music and poetry, was also the patron defender of herds and flocks, which makes Melbourne-based designer Vas Pittas idea to cast bird feeders in Apollo’s likeness, destined to be gradually eaten away by flocks of birds, poetically ironic. The Apollo Bird Feeder was conceived as an alternative product to experiment with casting as a manufacturing process as well as an opportunity to modernize the bell-shaped product that pet stores are usually stocked with.Manufactured as part of a project for Pittas’ Industrial Design studies, it is cast with bird seeds and an animal friendly binding agent using a jacket and silicon molding process, blending traditional materials and manufacturing techniques with computer aided technologies. 
Photo © Vas Pittas. 
A practical element of suburban garden décor, the bird feeder has been transformed by Vas Pittas into an urban art installation, reflecting Melbourne’s thriving street art scene as well as the artist’s preoccupations with concepts of urban living. The neoclassical form of Apollo’s bust was chosen both as a figurative symbol of public art - the kind that usually adorns prominent locations such as parliament houses, libraries, museums and theatres - as well as a nod to the artist’s |
