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Everyday Weapons by Chromoly

Written by Valentina on . Posted in design

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“Two of Chromoly‘s past designs, the Ninja Tack and especially Bourgeois Brass Knuckle, emerged as problematic to market. Potential manufacturers were consulted by their lawyers to stay away from them, and scandinavian retailers had the products taken off their shelves by the police. The objects were being treated like the weapons from which they borrowed their forms.
The Ninja Tacks and Bourgeois Brass Knuckle modified two weapon types to serve a different, non-violent, function. Everyday Weapons inverses this formula so that the capacity of everyday things to be used violently is drawn out of them.”

[via ignant]

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