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.

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.

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.