Benjamin Edgar—a Chicago-based multidisciplinary designer—uses design, emotion, and decade’s worth of research and development across varying processes and materials to participate in the world around him. The designer is known for creating objects for life, leisure, and function via a blend of irreverence, elegant confusion, exceptional materials, and intense attention to detail. Notable work includes his namesake object company, founding Boxed Water, and the cultural blog THE BRILLIANCE! (founded with Chuck Anderson and Virgil Abloh).
His primary project, "An Object Company," stands as the culmination of decades of research and development across varying processes and materials. Edgar creates objects for life, leisure, and emotion through a mix of irreverence, elegant confusion, exceptional materials, and an intense attention to detail. Each piece—whether to adorn the home, to wear, or simply to look at—balances the useful with the useless, inviting the opportunity to explore, dream, and look at the world around you from a different angle.
