Flotspotting: Frankly One of the Better Coathooks We've Seen

It is perhaps only natural that we're inclined to see emoticon-like faces in otherwise inanimate objects—cars are a canonical example, as is this AmEx spot from a couple years back , and the emoticon itself is simply an Internet-Age variation of the same. Wall-mounted coathooks must have struck Brooklyn-based designer David Barry (originally hailing from Ireland and of no relation to the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist of the same name) as vaguely visage-like, at least enough to inspir...

February 17, 2012 · Read full article