These 3 Desk Objects Make Shredding, Crushing Feel Like Design - Yanko Design

"Many of us already practice tiny acts of destruction when we're stressed. Shredding receipts, crumpling paper, or picking at packaging feel oddly satisfying even though we usually hide them. They're little releases that most designs ignore, treating them as guilty pleasures instead of real human behaviors. Art of Destruction is a concept that leans into those impulses and asks what happens if industrial design treats them as experiences worth designing."

"The project is a trio of objects named Disintegrate, Compress, and Explosion. Each one takes a different destructive action and turns it into a deliberate, almost ceremonial interaction. They share a visual language of cool grey bodies, orange accents, clear panels, and exposed mechanisms that make them look more like hi-fi gear than office tools. Together, they feel like a small family of instruments for controlled chaos on your desk."

Many people engage in small destructive acts—shredding receipts, crumpling paper, picking at packaging—as stress relief. Art of Destruction treats those impulses as design opportunities and comprises three objects: Disintegrate, Compress, and Explosion. The objects share a cool grey body, orange accents, clear panels, and exposed mechanisms that evoke hi-fi gear. Disintegrate is a visible paper shredder with gears, belts, blades, and tunable controls that foreground sound and motion. Compress is a cylindrical compactor that crushes items into neat pucks via a spiral rib vortex. Explosion is a flat tabletop console centered on magnetic fluid with tactile knobs and interactive elements. Designers include Meesol Park, JiHoon Park, MIN A Kim, Nahyeon Kwon, Dongkyun Kim, and Taeyoon Kim.

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