Nik Bentel's Orb Bag Was Created as an Experiment in Warping Light

Nik Bentel has returned with another imaginative, witty bag, although his latest creation is more mathematically inclined than past releases. The New York designer of Pasta Bag acclaim has debuted his futuristic Orb Bag.When it came to the design, Bentel wanted to create a handbag that warped light. Beyond a mere reflective surface, the designer looked to a mathematics concept called "Dupin cyclide." A type of geometric inversion of a torus, cone or cylinder, the cyclide is essentially formed by...