David F Wilson

artist, designer, waller, maker - based in Perth Scotland

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

On point!

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

You’ll never beat stone

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Richard Nixon's brutal truth on happiness that hits harder in 2026:

"The unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places—south coast of France, Newport, Palm Springs, Palm Beach—parties every night, golf every afternoon, bridge, too much drinking, too much talking, too little thinking. Retired, no purpose."

He saw it decades ago: Endless leisure without struggle isn't paradise—it's a slow death of meaning.

"What makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle—even if you don't win it."

In an age of quiet quitting, early retirement dreams, and infinite scrolling... Nixon reminds us: The fight is what keeps the soul alive.

What keeps you in the "battle" right now—even when it's exhausting?

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

Wow! Can’t wait to see what you all create with them👍

[Micah Springut @mspringut]

Just admiring the new robot fleet

[UK Dynamism Fund @ukdynamism]

The UK can once again be the most dynamic country in the world.

Today we launch the UK Dynamism Fund, a new philanthropic fund to support the believers and the builders of UK dynamism.

Apply now: https://t.co/6PHnd36HXO

[Louis Elton @LouisElton96]

Have you got a clever idea to fuse craft and technology to build something beautiful, useful, and scalable?

61 days left to submit to the Cræft Prize!

£60k prize pot. 6x £5k rapid grants. £30k for the winner + the glory of being the most tasteful technologist-aristisan.

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

Creativity???😬😬

[Merlin Tomkins 🇺🇦 @MerlinTomkins]

Mates neighbour had some ‘builders’ in to do fuck knows what to the wall. 🫪

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

Exactly!! 👏I hate the concept of FFF… 3 little words strung together that has led to such a lot of human misery

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Form should follow ambition not function. Not even a garage NEEDS to be ugly.

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

😂I nearly fell in the canal installing these!!

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

This is one of a number of interesting little markers set into the stonework of the Forth and Clyde Canal near The Whisky Bond in the north of Glasgow. They're a reminder of a project called Displacement carried out there in July 2015.

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#glasgow #forthandclydecanal

[Louis Elton @LouisElton96]

Some stills from my upcoming film about Mark Brearley, the proprietor of Kaymet — a remarkable WW2-era sheet metal factory that found a new life crafting and exporting luxury trays to the world.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

My garden this week❤️#flowers #gardens

[Shiv Malik @shivmalik]

On Wednesday the Forest City project releases our 295 pg report, ‘We Can Build a City’. It is the work of over 40 people. A labour of passion and dedication to solving the UK housing crisis, the lack of growth and infrastructure, and the impoverishment of nature. All these people put their skills to this task for free. They are true radicals in a time with such little hope for the future.

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

Did you buy them all?!

[Arka Serezh @ArkaSerezh]

@Gondor_Ind stone carving roboforce incoming

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

There’s a ‘kernel’ of concept that I agree with in this statement @ArkaSerezh … however ..is that where our ambition ends? We cannot foresee what will be without acknowledging that there is something out there worth pursuing!

[Arka Serezh @ArkaSerezh]

Pastiche is this word people use to dismiss anything that has a flavor of what has been made previously in the built world. But the problem with modern architecture is exactly lack of pastiche and continuous desire to do something new for the sake of new. Without any philosophical grounding of why. There’s no structure, no symmetry no integrity. As much as I’m pro individualism, when it comes to architecture, there needs to be a guiding principle with aesthetics taking a primary role. I’d take pastiche traditional architecture every time over modern glass boxes of slightly different shapes made by architects for the sole purpose of impressing other architects.

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

@1HID1 Brilliant! Thanks for sharing

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

@SabinHoward Stunning work.. cool that it’s being made in UK.. no US based foundries? Or cost? Or scale?

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

@ElvisPresley Amazing Grace! Elvis sits at the heart of that song with the musicians and backing singers elevating it to pure magic .. stick headphones on and lose yourself in that sound!

[The Centre for Social Justice @csjthinktank]

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Help us fix Britain’s broken high streets👇

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

@LouisElton96 How do you prefer I get in touch??

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

@shivmalik Exactly! So where do the creatives fit? Do the machines just replicate the past? Do the machines possess material knowledge? What makes stone and detail resonate is the ‘human’.. the effort the skill .. these are IMPORTANT aspects to consider

[David F Wilson @DFWil]

With only a tiny fraction of skilled creatives capable of such work practicing today … what structures/conditions need to be brought into play to make this a future possibility? .. IFS27 aims to bring that conversation to wider consciousness

[Shiv Malik @shivmalik]

We will build a whole city with buildings like this.