Dan Tobin Smith's latest artwork is one of the stand-out pieces of 2014's London Design Festival. Created from thousands of disparate objects collected by the artist and donated by the public. The First Law of Kipple brings our material culture into sharp focus and questions notions of beauty and usefulness in design. What underscores this is the sheer number of pop-culture items on display; forgotten icons and obsolesce crowding around your feet.

The installation is inspired by, and takes its name from, Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", where Kipple is not only "useless objects", but almost an entirely new form of life. "When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself," says K. Dick, "the entire universe is moving towards a final state of total, absolute kippleization."

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