Do you remember playing with spirographs as a kid? Circles rotating inside of circles, geometric and swirling psychedelic patterns; it was an endless fascination of experimentation. Vice and Vanity’s Sinew & Strain collection shares that similar creativity of abstract shapes, volume, dimension and layering, but their ideas are more concerned with the history of technology and its help in developing civilisations, than educational math toys. In many ways, Vice and Vanity show a similar initiative in design to engineers in ancient times,who used their knowledge to practice, extract and collect skills and materials to make something new. Self taught and almost accidental designers, Vice and Vanity amass ideas with the purpose to design something that has a desired objective. In this case, it’s to look good.
