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✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time Morning Brief Designer’s Voice “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” — Charles Eames 21 October 2026 · Issue 02 ✦
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✦ Daily Swatch: Weathered Porcelain #B8B3A8 A pale mineral neutral between old porcelain, stone dust and softened ash. Quiet and slightly warm, it carries the subdued character of material altered by handling, firing and time. Colors of Issue 02 ✦
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✦ The Object Seoul designer Yoonjeong Lee turns three worn-down pencils into structural elements, using them as nails to hold a paper lampshade above a wooden table. The base is built from 5,000 thin veneer sheets, making repetition itself the construction method. ✦ Issue 2 ✦
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The Issue of Time Industrial Design Issue "Intervened vases with cuts and deformations with a candle inside. The vibrant light of the candle reveals the interior and stains some of the exterior parts", designed by Martin Azua. oftoil.art/intervenedvases

Of Toil&co - Intervened Vases

Intervened vases with cuts and deformations with a candle inside. The vibrant light of the candle reveals the interior and stains some of the exterior parts.

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✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time II ✦ Industrial Design Issue Kaldabakur Forest: In collaboration with Dröfn Sæmundsdóttir and Gísli Hilmarsson, studio Helgi explored a new way of utilizing the forest of Kaldbakur in Ytri-Rangárvallarsýsla, Iceland. oftoil.art/kaldabakur
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✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time Morning Brief Designer’s Voice “Design is not a thing. It is a process.” — John Heskett 20 October 2026 · Issue 02 ✦
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✦ Daily Swatch: Fungal Clay #A69B87 A soft earthen neutral between dried clay, mushroom fibre and weathered plaster. Warm, porous and quietly organic, it suggests a material still close to its source—grown, shaped and eventually returned. Colors of Issue 02 ✦
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✦ The Object Through Touch and Strut, John Sorensen-Jolink of Coil + Drift explores how light changes our relationship with a room. The collections contrast focused illumination with the softer glow of shaded lamps. ✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time · Issue 02
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Autumn, through the medium of mid century Japanese lottery tickets . instagram.com/__luckbook
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The Issue of Time Issue Two: Industrial Design Issue The Forest of Kaldabakur: "We then designed three sorts of "Into water" and "Under the lip". Their names are: Bætir (improver), Vætir (wetener) and Gætir (guardian). oftoil.art/issue2

Of Toil&co - TWO

OfToil&co is a design studio and editorial archive curating timeless work across art, design, photography. The studio provides book design, stationery design, personal & business identity design, as...

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Art Commissions For concept art, illustration, visual direction for brands, ad campaigns, and the imagination between them. oftoil.art/art Order via Behance: behance.net/oftoil/servi... brought to you by design studio OfToil&co
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ArtReview_@ArtReview_Oct 18
The artist’s exhibition in London lets us feel what trusting historical and colonial documentary has always cost. artreview.com/lyndon-barrois…

Lyndon Barrois Jr. School of Bad Faith

The artist’s exhibition in London lets us feel what trusting historical and colonial documentary has always cost

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Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time Morning Brief Designer’s Voice “The act of interpreting things and phenomena around us.” — Keiji Takeuchi 19 October 2026 · Issue 02 ✦
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✦ Daily Swatch: River Clay #827B68 A muted olive-brown drawn from river mud, dried reeds and weathered stone. Earthy without becoming rustic, it carries the quiet complexity of materials shaped by water, erosion and time. Colors of Issue 02 ✦
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✦ The Object Chess Set A contemporary response to Josef Hartwig’s 1923 Bauhaus chess set, where every piece communicates its movement through its geometry. Here, oak and smoked oak give the functional language a warmer, more tactile presence. ✦ OfToil · Issue 02 ✦
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Tesla Roadster is the middle finger to the documentary smear campaign. Very impressive, Elon! via Dezeen: dezeen.com/2026/10/16/tesla-…

Tesla launches flying Roadster concept car

Tesla has unveiled its flying Roadster vehicle with a demonstration in which the car drove upside down, flipped off a ramp and briefly flew.

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Architizer
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#ArchitizerAwards Republica uniquely integrates housing (built to rent & to buy) with working, sports, hospitality, short & long stay and E-mobility facilities in a car-free  ‘permeable super block’: hubs.la/Q04BtC6J0 📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands Project by: Marc Koehler Architects
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“A new world is not only possible, it is on its way, on a quiet day, I can hear her breathing” ~ Ardundhati Roy.
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France collapsing and Burkina Faso rising is a sign that the new correct world order is about to arrive. Viva Afrika!
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✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time Morning Brief Designer’s Voice “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs 18 October 2026 · Issue 02 ✦
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✦ Daily Swatch: Shard Earth #8C8375 A quiet mineral grey-brown inspired by broken stone, kiln dust and weathered glass. Muted and tactile, it sits between earth and industry—where discarded material becomes something with another life. Colors of Issue 02 ✦
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✦ The Object Collectif MAGMA’s six-metre timber tower in Lunano, Italy, reinterprets the region’s ancient stone structures through a light, responsive construction. Eight timber frames support layers of shingles tied with jute rope. ✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time · Issue 02
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