Eindhoven graduate Diego Faivre has coated electrical plugs in brightly coloured, patterned clay, in a bid to inject some fun into these "boring and forgotten" objects.
Where normally extension leads are hidden from view, Faivre hopes to present them as design objects in their own right, as canvases for his Memphis-tinged colour palette.

"I needed an extension cord for my degree show, and I genuinely just found it really ugly," he told Dezeen.
"So I started coating it in this air-drying clay almost without really thinking about it. I only realised later how much it resonated with people because they are genuinely the most unloved objects in our house. So it became a game to try and give them more excitement, to draw attention to them."
To comply with electrical standards and ensure the safety of users, Faivre either sources pre-made extension leads from the hardware store, or works on people's existing products.
He uses a special type of clay that remains pliable once dry, and applies it starting from the cord before moving on to hard shell, avoiding contact with any of the electrical components.

"It's only towards the end of the process that I start having fun with the patterns and the colour contrast, adding them peanut by peanut," explained the designer.
"The coating can also act as a protective layer and allows me to hide little imperfections. In a way I work like a physiotherapist, massaging objects to give them a second ...