objct co design simple and essential products for home, work and play. We pursue unique and elegant solutions to everyday problems, creating beautiful, useful and enduring products for living. Our mission // Inspiring designs to help you simplify and organise your life Founded in Melbourne’s post-industrial inner west, objct co officially opened online in 2018 with the launch of the LAPOD Lap Desk. With a further series of unique new home accessories and productivity tools in development, we continually maintain our firm commitment to premium quality products designed in Australia. Whilst working on a deadline some time back, objct co's founder, Tony Heap, had to bring work home with him on his laptop for several nights in a row. After tiring of being at his home desk at night after sitting at his work desk all day, he thought there must be a better way. So, he quickly cobbled together a DIY lap desk in order that he could work more comfortably on the sofa in his living room. The only item he could find in the moment was a very large, flat, hard plastic lid with unfortunately sharp injection moulded ribs underneath. It needed to be placed on a cushion to rest on his lap, but he didn’t want the sharp plastic protruding bits to damage the cushion fabric. More rummaging in the kitchen cupboards offered up a large flexible baking dish, which when placed under the plastic lid meant his rough DIY lap desk was complete - victory! He now felt less like he was still at work and instead more productive and relaxed working in comfort. After a few nights working at his DIY lap desk, Tony found when he finished work he simply packed away his laptop cables, charger, notes and pens in the baking dish under the plastic lid. And so, the idea for the LAPOD, a LAP desk + storage POD, was born! Designed with ♥ in Melbourne
