Complex sentence: The word is a contraction or portmanteau of blobby and object and was coined by Steven Skov Holt, the design critic and educator, in the early 1990s; author and design journalist Phil Patton attributed the word to Holt in 1993 in Esquire magazine.
Split into simpler sentences: The word is a contraction or portmanteau of blobby and object coined by design critic and educator Steven Skov Holt in the early 1990s. Author and design journalist Phil Patton attributed the word to Holt in 1993 in Esquire magazine.