Young British designer Benjamin Hubert has created Cast Desk Tidy for Japanese homewares brand Welmade Products.
Hubert says: “The desk tidy has specific cast shapes in the top surface, designed to fit your stationary, encouraging a thoughtful process of pencil selection and stationary display rather than the conventional ‘throw it all in a pot approach’.”
See our earlier story on Hubert’s Dandilight.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
May 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
come on dezeen …
May 26th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Now… YOU GOTTA BE KIDING!!!
Why is this featured here?
May 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
A terrifying insight into the mind of a serial killer.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
i love it and want one.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
very nine.
i loved it.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
“methinks it but a bauble”
May 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
i agree – why on earth is this better than a simple cup? i mean, where do put my architectural (the triangular) ruler? where do i put my non-conforming fountain pen or other objects?
i understand his ‘polemic’, but sadly i’m not sure he understands the limitations that polemic has placed on his thinking. and at a time when we all need to be as elastic in our thinking as possible.
it’s fine if you want to do this for your own desk, but to actually put it into production…
May 26th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Sadly, I have more than 2 tria markers.
May 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Anal retention is always something designers and especially architects
need to flee from and this creation definately doesn’t help.
Its a good feeling to mix up your pencils and see how “fire” orange resonates along side “hulk” green.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
material?
May 26th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
For me design is about bringing freedom, not reducing it by imposing a path to follow.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
OK with JC but i like some other designs by Benjamin …
May 27th, 2008 at 3:54 am
not functional
May 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am
meh.. in theory maybe, but practically? I don’t think so..
May 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Is this deviation into neo-modernist ideology the result of a detailed investigation into the rituals of use of the 21st Century workplace? Or just a rather lazy attempt at some micro social-engineering, that attempts to answer a problem that doesn’t exist in the real world? I’m sure Le Corbusier would love this rigid compartmentalisation, I’m unmoved.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I completely, wholeheartedly agree with laru.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Can’t help pointing out the difference between “stationary” and “stationery”…!
May 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
To each their preference….some days I’m Felix and organize, some days I’ll pull an Oscar. they do look neat though.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:58 am
“encouraging a thoughtful process of pencil selection and stationary display rather than the conventional ‘throw it all in a pot approach’.”…
So it’s a game , a thoughtful process ….it’s not functionnal , not funny and not a rubik cube too… I use an old Starck astray in bakelite… it’s not Ok as ashtray but OK for pencils…
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
I love the soup bowl….but may be this one is for japon only…
February 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Urrrm
Who cares if your try-square doesn’t fit inside it?
It wasn’t designed to be a complete solution to all your stationary needs…
As it is, I think it does the job its designed for very well and looks amazing.