Fast Company highlights new designs by Nik Bentel (BRDD 2017, Industrial Design, Modern Culture and Media): “a chrome purse in the shape of an orb that warps light … made using a very complex mathematical calculation” and a line of “surrealist accessories,” created in collaboration with Kortney Hinden, “which [turn] iconic New York City street food into fashion.”

In Design Milk's "Friday Five" series, Bentel shares some of his current favorite things and muses on his path to this moment in his career.