David bird biography
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David bird biography
Artist and toy designer turns to nature for inspiration
By Christy Nadalin
About a decade ago, RISD-educated toy designer David M. Bird was sweeping his mom’s driveway in Pittsburgh, remembering fondly a job he had at Lego in Denmark, designing miniature figures for the company’s Bionicle line.
“I was sweeping and thinking how I missed Lego and I looked down and saw a stick that looked like a bug’s face,” he said. “And I realized I can create a whole world — and I don’t have to pay money for legos, I can build things out of what I find.”
So he did.
The result is Becorns, small creatures crafted from found natural abstract parts — so called, he says, because they are the next evolutionary step from acorns.
In addition to creating the characters, he will craft storylines and scenarios, and then position the Becorns nearby, set up his camera and wait for another character to complete the storyline — often a chipmunk,