The Northern Tool box is a magazine/ newspaper rack.

This product is the result of an investigation of utilitarian design language and the beauty of what might be called ‘low-tech’ or ‘traditional’ tools and their storage.

Avoiding a nostalgic retreat from new technology, the development of the product embraced digitally driven technology whilst making full use of traditional woodworking processes.

The newspaper rack references a Carpenters toolbox. Made from black dyed solid Ash, it is constructed with dovetail joints. The turned wooden handle has a laser etched ‘knurl’ to notionally add grip but also give a domestic object an engineered value.

It's called the Northern Tool box because it's first job was to act as a rack for The Northern Tool newspaper. (The Northern Tool is an intermittently published tabloid that documents the trials and tribulations of The Tools for Everyday Life project)