Design Challenge

Kabuki Watch has 4 personalities

May 17th, 2013
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Design submitted by Andrew from the UK.

Andrew says: Kabuki (4-in-1): is inspired by the LED Helmet masks worn by the french electronic music artists: Daft Punk. But instead of using LED’s this display uses a touch screen LCD or E-ink Display & is constructed various bracelet materials each with up to eight LED colors options each to choose from: Blue, Cyan, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, or Yellow.

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IOD shows time inside-out

May 16th, 2013
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Design submitted by Sam from Germany.

Sam says: When working on inside-out-displays I thought, what about letting the number segments themselves be interlaced? For IOD I chose a single classical 7-segment digit and gave it the dense information of three digits.

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Discus Analogue watch with LED

May 15th, 2013
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Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: This is Discus, a back-to-basics disc style analogue watch. The styling is influenced by retro sci-fi as well as more modern sci-fi films.  I wanted to design a disc analogue watch that was in theory easy to make but still looked exciting.

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Rēdā watch goes supersonic with it’s aviation themed display.

May 14th, 2013
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Design submitted by Clanrence-Junius from the USA.

Clarence-Junius says: The Rēdā aviation timepiece is inspired by exotic fighter jets and the pilots who fly them. Using the F-22 and modern radar readouts as a base for design the Rēdā.

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Racetrack watch puts you into pole position.

May 13th, 2013
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Design submitted by Heather from the USA.

Heather says: I thought of the digits for this design while driving.  The lights on the back of the car in front of me formed a curve, and I based the digits on similar curved shapes.

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Stripes LCD watch radiates lines to form digits

May 10th, 2013
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Design submitted by Laszlo from Hungary.

Laszlo says: It’s a 24 h format LCD watch. Indicate the time with stripped digits. The upper two digits is the hours and the lower two is the minutes.

The abstract-looking figures makes the reading mysterious but easy to learn.

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To boldly go where no other watch has gone before!

May 9th, 2013
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Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: I have submitted a few analogue designs in the past and most were perhaps a little too imaginative. They tended to be technically un-feasible and required expensive bespoke mechanisms to allow them to work. For this concept I decided to go back to basics and use a traditional disc style analogue time telling using similar construction to “Uzumaki”

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Orbiter GPS watch with satellite theme.

May 8th, 2013
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Design submitted by Lloyd from Australia.

Lloyd says: In this LCD concept watch design, called “Orbiter”, the time is conveyed by space debris in orbit around a silver disc representing the Earth.

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RAD watch Analog & Digital hybrid

May 7th, 2013
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Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.

Firdaus says: Inspired by my previous concept Gothic Eye Nirvana, this is an analog digital watch design, redefined. Contrary to its predecessor which themed superstitious, Redefined Analog Digital; RAD watch is retro techy themed with a bit element of automotive.

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Max6Zero watch inspired by The Black Hole movie

May 6th, 2013
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Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: This is “Max6Zero” after a robot from the film “The black hole”

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Four designs. Four ways of telling time.

May 3rd, 2013
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Designs submitted by Timur from Kyrgyzstan.

Timur submitted 4 unique watch designs in 2 color tones.  Each design has a different way of telling time. Read the rest of this entry »

Echo E-paper LCD analog watch display

May 2nd, 2013
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Design submitted by Sam from Germany.

Sam says: I was sketching for an analog based sci-fi E-paper display based on half circles. I took the advantage of E-paper towards LCD to hide and create display gaps whenever pleasing. So I created these half circle segments whose repetition, the echoing, has a deeper meaning for the time telling. Read the rest of this entry »

Edge LCD – based on the original Edge design

April 30th, 2013
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Design submitted by Peter from from the UK.

Peter says: “The machines sent an assassin back in time to the present to eliminate the leader of the resistance. The resistance countered and brought future tech with them. This future tech was replicated the best it could be using present day manufacturing methods. Edge was the first!” Read the rest of this entry »

Police Light tells time in 3 colors

April 30th, 2013
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Design submitted by Ilham from Indonesia.

Ilham says: “I was inspired by many designs in this blog. So, I started make my own watch design. Police light will light up your life.”

It is an LCD watch with dual bracelet inspired by police light. There are 3 colors, red, white, and blue. 1 red block shows 1 hour. 1 white bolck shows 5 minutes. 1 blue block shows 1 minute. The date shows at the top. Read the rest of this entry »

Timetri watch tells time in triangles

April 29th, 2013
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Design submitted by Albert from Poland.

Albert says:  Timetri is an idea of graphics watchface which looks like it’s come from a sci-fi movie.

It expresses time by four groups of triangles, representing hours, tens of minutes and single minutes.  The time of day can be gathered from the position of the white triangle (down for AM and up for PM). Read the rest of this entry »