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My name is Adeanon, but since most people mispronounce it (that's Adja-non) I've gone by Anon for the past 20 years. I have no affiliation with either of these designers. I joined the AT community to vote for one of my friends, who subsequently didn't make it to the finals, but I have become quite addicted to the whole competition.

There's certainly no aggression here, sorry if that's how my sarcasm came across. Just correcting the pervious poster's notion that quilted maps are original, not to mention that we're supposed to vote on the better design based on these posts. If I'm not supposed to take the machine quilted maps into consideration, why spend so much of the post (the new text, and well as the entire video) promoting them?

On the basis of design alone, the Hello Blocks win hands down. The handcrafted quilts are more art/decoration, not so much design. What makes them "design" is the computer controlled machine quilting. That turns the art object into a design object, but in doing so takes away a considerable amount of what makes the hand-quilted maps so precious and special. Ultimately devaluing the entire object.

Yeah, 'cos nothing says original like a quilted map:

http://ianhundleystudio.com/

http://www.leahevanstextiles.com/

http://quiltsbyvalerie.com/archgallery1A.html

http://worldquilter.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/196/

I've definitely never seen shelves that resemble anything like this. I'd say it's damn original.

And nothing says craftsmanship like a computer programed quilting machine...especially not hand crafted and hand finished solid wood furniture.