The Netherlands is considered a contemporary-design superpower and has fostered a number of notable figures, whose limited-edition creations often combine industrial design with sculpture.
The Abbotshaugh Sentinel project was led by a community client panel comprised of Langlees and Bainsford residents, who helped in the design and construction of the sculpture.
You can achieve a similar result via virtual sculpture gardens with a multiplayer feature, provided the level design and the music are pretty enough to move the users.
Rather than placing the calligraphy in the context of street art and design, "we are showing the works as art and sculpture pieces", said Natasha Whiffin, the gallery's manager.
An obvious answer to the museum's crisis of purpose was to expand outwards from its renowned collection of modern painting and sculpture into ever more areas of art, liberally defined, including architecture and commercial design.
Among the first to see the sculpture's promotional potential were the German and Australian founders of Manneken Pis Productions, a Brussels graphic design firm launched in 2000 that uses him as its logo.