My latest product looks at the ways design can manipulate social exchange and encourage interaction.
The product is a wall mounted magazine rack, with an upper shelf allowing a book to be left open on a double page spread with the content either facing upwards or down.
The piece is suited to environments where people may be united, such as a hallway, sitting room, waiting room or a play room.
Leaving a magazine open on the upper shelf can prompt questions as to why the people who last viewed the magazine had an interest in the topic; as a result promoting social exchange. Reading on from where the magazine was left open can provide opportunity to read something which you may not have otherwise, maybe a subject which you previously had no interest in.
The form is refined with no decoration, as the decoration is the role of the graphic designer responsible for the appearance of the magazine, or the subject matter featured.
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