Purely functional objects – in this case, airtight seal gaskets for engines – can have intriguing aesthetic qualities. An artist may never produce their unusual geometries starting from artistic principles.

The Misc. books are “an occasional series featuring unseen design experiments, photographic essays, personal sketches, strange clippings, resampled illustrations, random doodlings, themed ephemera, visual musings, unrealised projects, curated detritus . . .”