MacGuffin 6 – The Ball

Keep your eyes on the ball with MacGuffin Nº 6. Dedicated to the perfectly shaped object that is the dream of every visionary architect, but a source of great distress to the unsporty among us: the ball. MacGuffin kicks off with spinning ballboys, tumbling plants, rolling meatballs, bouncing planets, utopian bubbles, and the inventor of the smiley: Mr. Harvey Ball himself.

MacGuffin 4 – The Sink, with a cover image photographed by Scheltens & Abbenes.

MacGuffin 4 delves into the alluring lives of the sink, the object that speaks volumes about who we are and how we live. Featuring mesmerizing inox sinks, sinks for genever drinkers, pathologists and babies, ‘kommunalka’ sinks, sitcom sinks, and bottomless sinkholes into which everything disappears. The magazine contains a wonderful series of stainless steel sinks by photography duo Scheltens & Abbenes and a short story by prize winning author Kira Wuck.

MacGuffin 3 – The Rope: where would we be without rope and knots? That’s the question.

As a design & crafts magazine MacGuffin 3 explores the fascinating life of the object that binds together pieces of furniture, K2 climbers, redneck cars, Japanese eggs and Mars rovers. It inspires a community of flax spinners, biennale curators, bondage lovers and sailing enthusiasts: Rope. Connoisseurs from designers Bertjan Pot and Brynjar Sigurðarson to writer Arnon Grunberg and artist Françoise Grossen shed their light on something so interwoven with our lives that it deserves a magazine of its own.