The Marimba magazine rack started with a few pairs of old drumsticks. Using them as one plane of the rack, the other plane needed to relate both functionally and visually. Different shapes were experimented with, from a drumhead to a simple rectangle of wood. The final form and color the solid plane resembles that of a marimba, thus the name.

The connectors reference the drumstick tips used to play a marimba. The different parts of this magazine rack can be separated and packaged flat saving paper so more magazines can be printed.