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  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

  • april 2024
    new project

    For the glassware company Lobmeyr we designed "ident" - drinking set No.287

    Identical shape, identical height - five individual glasses.
    The series was unveilded during Milan Design Week.

    Lobmeyr

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 5.4.2024 - 14.7.2024
    exhibition

    "inWastement" glass series is on show at the Klimabiennale in Vienna at the "design with a purpose" exhibition.

    Klimabiennale Wien

  • 15.9.2023 - 21.7.2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • 01.06.2024 - 30.03.2025
    exhibition, adapted project

    A utopian insect swarm based on our 'curiosity cloud' developed with 13 children from Dresden swirls during the Kinderbiennale in the Japanische Palais. The participatory process resulted in 24 fantastic, colourful insects.

    Children's Biennale "Planet Utopia"

  • 30.05 2024 - 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    All in! Re-Designing Democracy - Every aspect of democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently. A new "Themis" claims in the exhibition for rights for Nature.

    Bundeskunsthalle

  • 10.05. 2024 - 23.06.2024
    exhibition

    20th anniversary international exhibition and series of events. Our glass project "access" is part of the exhibition.

    design without borders

perspective boxes

a project that plays with one's visual perception

  • year 2017

  • category Products & Furniture

  • commissioned by

    self-initiated

perpective boxes, 2017

The project perspective boxes brings two-dimensional perspective drawings of cubes, into the three-dimensional world in the form of storage boxes. Seen from the right point of view and with light from the left, the perspective boxes appear geometrically perfect and nearly like a drawing on cardboard. However, as soon as they are turned or the observer approaches them, one understands that most of the angles are not 90 degrees and the object is slanted. The perfect geometry is just an optical illusion. The three different shades of colour on the faces of the boxes enable and intensify this effect. Since the boxes are angled the smaller storage containers can be opened by pushing the highest or lowest corner of the lid. While the smaller boxes offer storage space for jewellery, toys or smaller desktop items, the lager box can be used as a little side-table, stool and offers a drawer to store larger things.

The perfect geometry is just an optical illusion.

when looking at the boxes from another perspective, one realises quickly that they are not right-angled

the smaller boxes can store desktop items, small toys and similar things

the lager box can be used as a little side-table, stool and offers a drawer to store larger things

the drawer can be opened with a push-latch system

technical visualisation of a perspective boxes cube. While the vertical lines are all parallel, the horizontal lines are not. The edges are mitred so that the lid slides in perfectly. Three shades of the same colour underline the visual effect.

the lid can be opened by pushing the highest or lowest corner gently

small cardboard models in various colours and showing that the concept works in different sizes

some of the first grey cardboard models during the development

  • material

    small boxes: birch plywood, paint

    big box with drawer: birch plywood, paint, hinges

  • dimensions

    small blue box: 26 x 26 x 26 cm

    small yellow box: 40 x 23 x 15 cm

    small red box: 24 x 17 x 18,5 cm

    big red box: 45 x 45 x 45 cm

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, first test phase (2015): Anouk Buntsma realisation (2017): Benedikt Steiner, Elisa Polner