JIX
JIX Multifunctional construction kit by Patrick Martinez is a winner of the 2014 Silver A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design.
JIX is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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JIX is a construction kit created by New York based visual artist and product designer Patrick Martinez. It is comprised of small modular elements that are specifically designed to allow standard drinking straws to be connected together, in order to create a wide variety of constructions. The JIX connectors come in flat grids which easily snap apart, intersect, and lock into place. With JIX you can build everything from ambitious room-sized structures to intricate table-top sculptures, all using JIX connectors and drinking straws.
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JIX by Patrick Martinez
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Multifunctional construction kit
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Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Award Winner in 2014.
Silver Winner
JIX Multifunctional construction kit
JIX is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. JIX is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. JIX is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez is a New York based visual artist and product designer who was born and grew up in France. For the past twenty years, He has been exploring different forms of expression, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, sound art, video... His interest in product design is closely related to his artistic practice. A few years ago, he founded the product design studio Blank Bubble. Blank Bubble is marked by a particular interest in dematerialization, meditative objects that offer sensory experiences, and reflects Patrick Martinezʼ concern for the notions of displacement, shift of perspective, economy, process, adaptation and/ or resistance.
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Blank Bubble
JIX is a construction Kit created by visual artist and product designer Patrick Martinez for the design studio Blank Bubble that he founded in november 2009. Blank Bubble is marked by a particular interest in dematerialization, meditative objects that offer sensory experiences and reflects Patrick Martinez's concern for the notions of displacement, shift of perspective, economy, process, adaptation and/ or resistance.
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Jix
Blank Bubble is a product design studio founded by New York based visual artist and designer Patrick Martinez.
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