Hasta La Ideas

Born in Chile and raised in London, artist and designer Sebastián Errázuriz is now proud to call New York City home. He’s reached the point where he can more or less support his fine art endeavors with equally clever commercial design projects. While we’ve seen at least one of his many designs before, Errázuriz is busier than ever these days, always chasing the next big idea in hopes of making it a reality. Here’s a couple of the prolific provocateur’s more recent projects:

The “Husband” and “Better Half” chopping boards are simply standard plastic cutting boards that have been printed with anatomy graphics. Designed by Errázuriz for Kikkerland, they’re in keeping with his mission to transform “consumer objects”—among other things—into reminders “of the fragility life; inviting people to look again at their daily routines and attempt to live life at its fullest.”

The cutting boards are inspired by traditional surgery and autopsy tables, though there’s an obvious element of vicious vicarious vivisection.

The other design is, to use the late Tobias Wong’s felicitous phrasing, more “paraconceptual“…

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