Winner of our Stockholm Design Week award for most batshit-mental product, surely had to go Officer; a delightfully bizarre storybook inspector cum drawer cabinet, by Sanghyeon Cho and his freind, children’s book illustrator, Ji – who work together under the name Studio AMUNA. Whilst Cho candidly admitted to me that there’s not much behind the piece, other than that the design amused him as much as it did us, the duo have imagined the scene of a classic detective story – with Officer as the central character; Ji having created the delightful illustration below.
Mental it may be (well, mental it most certainly is), but there’s a charm and a personality to Officer that is so contagious you just want to take him home and look after him. If the fledgling Studio AMUNA – they still don’t even have a website – continue in this direction, then we could have one very special little studio on our hands…