It’s all in the detail

On a daily basis we at Idealogy have to think not only about the ‘big’ ideas and the processes that will get us to the best solution, but we think about the detail too. We are used to thinking about the little additions and tweaks that make the difference but were still blown away when we saw the level of detail that Dalton Ghetti works at ALL the time!

Dalton Ghetti is a 49 year old carpenter, who for the last 25 years has been creating sculptures on a tiny scale. He uses three basic tools – a razor blade, sewing needle and sculpting knife to bring these minature works of art to life and amazingly he doesn’t even use a magnifying glass! While a figure will take him several months to make, he has spent two and half years on a pencil with interlinking chains.

He explains. “When I got into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood, but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as small as possible. I experimented sculpting with different materials, such as chalk, but one day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve into the graphite of a pencil”

Here are some of our favourites:

Yes this really is from ONE pencil!

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