"Setting up a desk usually means the laptop and lamp go on top while the power strip disappears underneath, tangled with dust and forgotten cables. Electricity gets treated as something to manage and conceal, even though it quietly runs everything you do all day. Most power strips look industrial or aggressively technical, which is why they end up banished behind furniture, making plugging things in feel like reaching into a dark cave."
"Composition Studio's Pencil Multi-Tap follows a different line of thought. The studio designs objects that make you want to record simply by looking at them, asking what happens if the object itself initiates the act instead of waiting for discipline or habit. The Pencil Multi-Tap turns a power strip into something that feels closer to a pencil on a desk than a piece of hardware you are supposed to hide, treating electricity as part of the creative process."
"Sitting down at a clean desk in the morning, you drop your notebook, tablet, and laptop on the surface and plug them into a small block that reads as a fat, sharpened pencil. The black cable trails away like a drawn line toward the wall outlet. It feels less like plugging into infrastructure and more like drawing the first line on a blank page, a quiet signal that work is about to begin."
The Pencil Multi-Tap reimagines a power strip as a compact, pencil-shaped block that belongs visibly on a desk. Three outlets provide sufficient capacity for a laptop, charger, and lamp without creating cable clutter. The blocky, portable body can sit anywhere on the desk or move between rooms. The intentional aesthetic encourages leaving the unit visible, making plugging and unplugging easier and less awkward. The pencil shape and color blocking feel familiar and non-technical, integrating electricity into the creative process and replacing industrial, hidden power bricks with an approachable, design-forward tool.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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