Agaave Y.

chalant Editor in Chief: OfToil — The Issue of Time.

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[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

✦ OfToil · The Issue of Time ✦

"By cutting the pages of the sketchbook to create a three-dimensional landscape, we wanted to show the way that sketches function in the space between two & three dimensions, to present the sketchbook itself as a place.”

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✦ The Object

Concav Book — Ignacio Martínez Todeschini & Ignacio Noel
A bookend that becomes a lamp: a curved block of Brazilian quartzite is CNC-milled and hand-finished to conceal its light source, while a movable steel element attaches magnetically.

✦ OfToil · Issue 02

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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

Source · ⁠Industrial Designers Society of America —

22 October 2026 · Issue 02 ✦

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✦ Daily Swatch: Burnished Umber #756B5E

A deep earthen neutral between oxidized bronze, walnut dust and dry soil. Muted rather than brown, it carries the quiet weight of worked material—something aged through handling, friction and time.

Morning Brief • Colors of Issue 02. ✦

[Yoko Ono @yokoono]

People say their phones are bugged…”

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A rare glimpse into a phone call between John Lennon and journalist Howard Smith, featured in the award-winning documentary ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO. Experience the film alongside the newly restored, re-edited and remixed POWER TO THE PEOPLE concert film on the new Blu-Ray editions.
Pre-order now at https://t.co/dBsetS6Bq9!

[Communication Arts @CommArts]

EXHIBIT: @wearemucho created Biotic’s evolving identity to make synthetic cell science accessible through cell-inspired visuals and animations. https://t.co/DpoQHmsDXM

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

I am genuinely not sure where this rumor is coming from as it would appear Turning Point USA is launching another cannon of Z-list influencers into our orbit, who will prove all too eager to lie for cash…That aside, allow me to state this unequivocally: at no point before, during, or after our meeting did Erika Kirk ever offer to allow me to see Charlie Kirk’s autopsy.

She has never made that claim publicly nor could she, because it simply never happened.

The only document Erika offered to allow me to view was a typed transcript from Charlie’s Aspen event, which she alleged was proof Charlie passed the organization onto her. I declined to see/read the transcript of the video because the offer itself was nonsensical. It would have made sense to show me the video itself—not a transcript of it.

Hope that clarifies matters.

[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

✦ 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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✦ 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 ✦

[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

✦ 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 ✦

[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

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.

https://t.co/4Z3woSqQpC

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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.

https://t.co/sJWjMYaSDb

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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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✦ 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 ✦

[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

✦ 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 ✦

[Present & Correct @presentcorrect]

Autumn, through the medium of mid century Japanese lottery tickets . https://t.co/awigriFDg8

[Agaave Y. @oftoil]

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).

https://t.co/xxCy4QxdYv

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Art Commissions

For concept art, illustration, visual direction for brands, ad campaigns, and the imagination between them.

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The artist’s exhibition in London lets us feel what trusting historical and colonial documentary has always cost. https://t.co/w0rYSrk0Ut