My design work varies from the poetic to the pragmatic. With self-initiated projects, I tend to design for the domestic sphere, at the scale of the individual, and often without a lot of technology. My academic projects involve greater ethnographic research and participatory methods and tend toward systems-, service-, and strategic-design. The images below represents the "making" aspect of my design practice, often in collaboration with Stephanie M. Tharp and our studio, materious.
The Cubby coat hook challenges traditional form—rather than a coat hook being a fairly linear element (like a nail), Cubby is a volume. The center space offers storage for keys, wallets, gloves, sunglasses, or other small items. The outer surface allows purses and scarves to be hung and offers a wider, more collar-friendly support for coats. Many Cubbys can be attached to the wall linearly or randomly, in different colors, and each family member can have their own coat “space.”
CUBBY
Coat hook and storage
Injection molded polypropylene
2006
• Ever misplaced your keys or sunglasses?
• Do you live in a small space without an entry table or closet?
• Want your kids to have their own places to keep their hats and gloves
• Do you hate the "sweater dents" caused by traditional coat hooks?
• Want to keep your phone or sunglasses handy, but away from the kids?
• Or, do you just love eco-sensitive, innovative, and beautiful design?
Cubby is the ultimate anywhere hook that also allows you to store items like sunglasses, cellphones, wallets, spare change, and gloves.Its large diameter won’t stretch out your collars and is big enough to securely hang purses and laptop bags.
Cubby merges the nostalgia of a kindergarten cubby with a cool, modern form, putting a sophisticated adult spin on the kid classic.They are great for entry-ways, mudrooms, pool rooms, garages, and kids' rooms.
A single Cubby would look and work great on the wall in an office or dorm room, while a group of them is perfect for the whole family. Parents and kids each have their own storage space, and Cubby can even be hung at different heights to accommodate the little ones.
We made great efforts to create an ecologically sensitive, durable, and enduring product.
• Designed, tooled, manufactured, and fulfilled in Chicago, Illinois USA
• 100% recycled plastic
• 100% recyclable
• 100% wind-energy-powered packaging factory
• retail packaging made in USA
• retail packaging designed for nesting, reducing transport & storage volume
• USA-made drywall anchors
• USA-made, recyclable screw cover
• Re-used cardboard transport boxes: factory to fulfillment and back
Cubby is made by an injection molding process. Plastic pellets are fed into a machine that melts them and then forces the molten plastic into a metal mold. The plastic stays in the mold for about one minute while it begins to cool, and then fully-molded parts are ejected from the machine. The plastic sprue (excess from the injection channel) is clipped off, and then after cooling to room temperature, they are individually packaged.
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