MacGuffin Stories

"Extraordinary stories about the life of ordinary things." MacGuffin is an unusual design magazine. Each edition takes an object or often anonymously designed things and explores the manifold stories it generates. Like the MacGuffins in Hitchcock films, these things are not the main characters, but the plot devices that set the story in motion.

MacGuffin Stories gathers 18 pocket-sized, offbeat stories and drawings that uncover the lives of ordinary things. From collapsed airbeds and clogged sinks to unsettling windows and whispering trees, these stories transform the familiar into something alive and charged, reminding us that objects carry memories and tensions of their own. Commissioned for and first published in MacGuffin Magazine, this small book brings together writers and artists who celebrate the unexpected beauty and drama hidden in daily life.

Amsterdam, Netherlands; 10x13.5 cm; 260 pages; 2026