The design is so strong that it can live its own life independent of the actual product of which it forms a part. This is true of Alvar Aalto's Savoy vase and it may very well become true of the Knot cushion too. "I have always been attracted to strange and unique things," Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir explains as she talks about how she developed the idea of Knot. "I try to create unusual designs, products that are unpredictable and that make people curious."