June 1st, 2012
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: The inspiration for this watch came from the number sign (hash, pound sign, rarely octothorp in different variations). This symbol divides an area into nine squares.
I sketched around for a digital display and quickly came to the double square numbers, you can see in the images. I took the name Octothorpe due to it’s emphasis on the number 8. There are 8 squares forming the time display and each of them is made of 8 segments.
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May 31st, 2012
Design submitted by Nurdinov from Kyrgyzstan.
Nurdinov says: Inspired by a film about the time with Justin Timberlake. Laser light falls on the hand, and there appears, as in the movie.
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May 30th, 2012
Design submitted by Matt from Canada.
Matt says: By using the Mayan numeral system, for another project, I had the idea to integrate it into something I use daily.
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May 29th, 2012
Design submitted by Leonard from Malaysia.
Leonard says: Recently I study about emoticons of digital display. It remains me of tamagotchi, a digital pet in 90′s. When i look at how the tamagotchi’s pet face expression, it give me an idea on designing this watches – Watchme.
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May 28th, 2012
Design submitted by Heather from the USA.
Heather says : I was looking at a digital clock whose traditional 7-segment digits were mostly trapezoidal, with a visible gap between the segments. I thought, “Why do the segments need to be trapezoids?” I sketched some digit layouts using various arrangements of seven polygon segments with pronounced spaces between them, until I came up with the CRAX digits. Read the rest of this entry »
May 25th, 2012
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: This concept began experimentally with sketching for hexagon based numbers. After a while, the numbers developed into these round ones, that consist of six circle segments and a center dot. I played with the number layout and soon everything reminded me of some sci-fi technology.
I continued with this theme and so SuujiMaru was born. Read the rest of this entry »
May 23rd, 2012
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: There is this quote: “Time is a predator that stalks us all of our lives.” It made me think if that’s true. Actually with all the things we do, time is running away, getting eaten up by activity. Not we are the prey, time is. I made this concept of a watch, that looks like biting time. Read the rest of this entry »
May 22nd, 2012
Design submitted by Sylvie from Canada.
Sylvie says : I wanted to go outside the box by avoiding symmetry. I wanted to do something modern and ‘chic’.
There is 12 facets, one for each hour of the day. Each intersection of the facets (the larger parts indicates the hours and the intersections of the inner ‘circle’ indicate 5 min each. Read the rest of this entry »
May 11th, 2012
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam Says: I was experimenting with hexagon based numbers that are derived from the classic 7-segment-digits everybody knows. There were many ways to do it and one of them strongly resembled the radioactive sign. I played around with the time display and saw, displaying all four numbers next to each other doesn’t look good and would take the iconic expression away from them. So I decided to use a phased display like the Denshoku, displaying one number at a time. That way, each number comes into it’s own.
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May 9th, 2012
Design submitted by Peter (UK) & Sam (Germany)
Peter & Sam say: The initial idea for Camalien was a watch that changes its colour with the mood of the wearer. But mood is an abstract thing that could be dozens of measurable things in reality. We kept the colour changing aspect and gave the watch a camera.
The display of Camalien reacts to the environment like a chameleon. Read the rest of this entry »
May 4th, 2012
Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.
Firdaus says: Came up with this idea after reading some articles about photon light, then I remembered EL wire, browsed the internet, watched Youtube videos, read about them and I have a good display for a watch with “photon light” theme.
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May 2nd, 2012
Design submitted by Ron from the Netherlands.
Ron says: I wanted a cool bracelet which at first doesn’t look like a watch. It should off course also be a watch, but if you see the bracelet nothing would make it look like a watch. So no circular shapes and no watch-like band. Read the rest of this entry »
April 30th, 2012
Design submitted by Sascha from Germany.
Sascha says: “The idea for this watch design arose from my intention to buy a new futuristic watch. I started thinking about the attributes that I personally set value on, and after some thoughts I began working a timepiece I would love to wear myself, whereat I focused on light and not being minimalistic. Read the rest of this entry »
April 27th, 2012
Design submitted by Lloyd from Australia.
Lloyd says: “This concept watch design is called “Checkpoint”. I thought it would be fun to create a modern-looking watch with circular LED lights that resembles a conventional analog watch. It’s called “Checkpoint” because you have to check the points (spots) to find out the time and date.
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April 26th, 2012
Design submitted by Mattia from Italy.
Mattia says: “After millions of paper sheets full of sketches, I was looking at some Dieter Rams design work on my iMac… and the idea came to me! Read the rest of this entry »
