Ask any designer about the objects that shaped them and you'll learn more about their practice than any portfolio could. Here are four of ours.
A rubber duck with an existential expression. Found at a flea market in Amsterdam in 2014. It appears to be questioning the concept of ducks. We've never been able to throw it away.
The world's most unnecessary bottle opener. Eighteen moving parts. Takes forty-five seconds. Opens bottles perfectly. A complete waste of engineering in the best possible sense.
A ceramic bowl that looks embarrassed. We don't know who made it. We found it in a thrift shop and bought it immediately. It sits on our shelf and occasionally we apologize to it.
Any chair designed by someone who hated sitting. There's a whole genre. Chairs that challenge, confuse, or mildly antagonize. We admire them all.