About BLOCK

Two-thirds of the world's population has a smartphone. And moments without rrrrrrrings, pings, pushes and Likes are rare. Almost a luxury you could say. BLOCK helps you find a healthy balance between being connected and when not. Simply because smartphones have no connection in this modern and stylish version of the Faraday Cage (1836). 

It functions as a beacon of space, rest, attention and silence in these hyper-connected times. But it’s also a statement about breaking the habit of having a smartphone always on you, or in sight. In BLOCK our smartphones now have a fixed place where they can no longer interrupt. And this might even help us notice how much we used it. And how hooked we are.

Team BLOCK
Fabian Sapthu & Ernst Koning

Product designer Ernst Koning runs his own studio ILIASERNST and his products are sold by GISPEN, Puik and HollandsLicht. Fabian Sapthu is creative director/co-founder of LESS AGENCY and initiator of the annual 2BelminutenStilte (2 Minutes Of Phonesilence during the Dutch WOII remembrance day).

Product designer Ernst Koning runs his own studio ILIASERNST and his products are sold by GISPEN, Puik and HollandsLicht. Fabian Sapthu is creative director/co-founder of LESS AGENCY and initiator of the annual 2BelminutenStilte (2 Minutes Of Phonesilence during the Dutch WOII remembrance day).