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bastiaanstoker · 7 years

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WORK IN PROGRESS 'Design By Misinterpretation' I was once talking with another student, when during the conversation something interesting happened. The person I was talking to, mispronounced the word 'bathtub'. Instead, he pronounced it as 'bathTUBE'. I thought that was funny. We then started fantasizing about how a bathtube would look like, and came up with the image of a huge ventilation pipe, cut through half, big enough to pass as a bathtub. Initial ideas; Bathtub - bathtube A tube, used as a bath. Unicorn - unicorn; sculpture of a unicorn, made out of corn. bosschebol -> bosschebowling 9-11 deniers (the 9 people who deny the number 11) Some more ideas I came up with: Vinylplayer - Vinylslayer Headphones - Redphones - deadphones - coffeemug - coffeerug guitaramplifier - Guitar strings - Guitar things - Guitar kings - Guitar rings - Guitar stinks - Guitar sfinx Tablesaw - Tableclaw - Tablepaw - Tableraw - Table Table leg - Table greg - Table fag - Table keg Computerscreen - Computerspleen - Computercream Wintercoat - Wintergoat - Winterboat - Winterroad - Armrest - Armdesk - Armchest - Armbest - Armnest - Armpit - Armsit - Armclit - Armspit Beard hair - Beard stairs - Beard claire - Beard stare - Beard bear - Beard rare - Beard dare - Beard snare - Beard fair Drum kit - Drum klit - Drum shit - Drum pit - Drum tit - Drum Pencilcase - Pencilvase - Pencilrace - Penciltrace - Pencilbase - Drying rack - Dryingstack - Dryingback - Dryingsack - Dryingblack Toenail - Toesnail - Toetail - Toerail - Toeveil - Toebill - Toe sale - ToeBreil Fingernail - Fingersnail - Fingertail - Fingerrail - Fingernail - Fingerbill - Finger sale - Finger Breil Watchband -> Watchhand - Watchkent (sigaretbrand) Shoelaces -> Shoevases - Shoebases Chocoladebar - chocoladebar I could feel potential in this direction. Some words that came up were very interesting, like; Computercream, armnest, fingersnails and armspit. Although I have only investigated this a bit, I also came up with another approach that I found working much better, and more fun mostly! This method works a bit differently, and it's hard to explain. But an example will make it easy to understand; The idea is to start with a word, that could be split in two separate words. Such as; 'candlelight'. This word consists of two separate words; 'candle' and 'light'. The next thing, is to find a word that starts with the last word of the previous word. It sounds very confusing, even as I write it. But this example shows what I mean; 'Candlelight' ends with 'light'. A word you could make from 'light' as the starting word, could be 'lighthouse'. Thus, combining 'candle', 'light' and 'house' together makes 'Candlelighthouse'. Interestingly enough, I found that many combinations of words can be imagined as being a real thing. For example; toenailgun, tableleghair, toolbeltsander or eyecontactglue. I have multiple ideas about further delevopment of these words.. but for now, this is what I came up with by just coming up with words. Pencil case - study Arm pit Head phone - charger Table leg - hair Facial Hair - band / dryer / style Toe nail gun Snail house Hand towel Vinyl player Staple gun holder/range/powder/store Computer screen saver/ Eye contact glue Train track snow man cave coffee mug Arm rest Eye lid Drum stick Tool belt sander Table top less Back bone Ice cream dispenser Costume party animal Water Balloon animal

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