The physical switch to turn off your emails

For many of us email is an oppressive influx that we need to shut out from time to time. Designer and artist Brendan Dawes has taken a very literal approach to this problem, and created an 'email switch'. Placed next to a normal light switch, it enables you to turn off the flow of email to your entire network.

"Why can't we turn email off and on as easy as other appliances in our house?" Dawes asks. "By changing the context of how we turn email off and on we might better manage our relationship to it, easily able to switch off whenever we feel like it."

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Tanya Combrinck

Tanya is a writer covering art, design, and visual effects. She has 16 years of experience as a magazine journalist and has written for numerous publications including 3D World, 3D Artist, ImagineFX, Computer Arts, net magazine, and Creative Bloq. For Creative Bloq, she mostly writes about web design, including the hottest new tools, as well as 3D artwork and VFX.

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