KIPLKO (pronounced kip-ILL-coh) is a one woman art + design factory imagined by Chicago based artist Ange Tsai. The name was inspired by the word kipple from the sci-fi masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there’s twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.”
– Philip K. Dick
KIPLKO’s mission is to connect the ancient to the modern. Fire, one of the first technological breakthroughs, and clay, one of the most naturally abundant materials in the world, are combined to create KIPLKO products.
KIPLKO is not just stuff.