Mugen-Kido LED watch: The art of folding metal.
August 2nd, 2012
Design submitted by Peter (UK) and Sam (Germany).
Peter & Sam say: The inspiration for this design originates from “origami” the art of folding paper.
Design submitted by Mark from New Zealand.
Mark says: Inspiration / theme for this design came from the well known Morse code.
Design submitted by Laszlo from Hungary.
Laszlo says: 12-5-9 — Binary hybrid LED watch with. Indicates the time in three columns in binary format. The first is the hours, the second is the ten minutes and the third is the single minutes.
Easy-to-read, when you know the binary numbers.
Design submitted by Peter from the UK.
Peter says: This is “Hypercube” an analogue format LED watch. I wanted to come up with a simple LED watch that tells the time in an analogue style.
Design submitted by Dietrich from Australia.
Dietrich says: I couldn’t decide if I wanted to design an analog or digital watch. Then it came to me…
Design submitted by Devindh from the UK.
Devindh says: I called this design ‘Ebi’ because the eventual design reminded me of a lobster. The idea stemmed from my exploration of e-paper. I wanted to incorporate laser cut pieces of e-paper into a design, as this display technology lends itself to custom shapes.
Design submitted by Peter from the UK.
Peter says: This is “Digit Stacked MKIII” cryptic LED watch.
The original idea consisted of digits made up of LEDs, the digits were arranged one inside the other in a russian doll style. This allowed the quite regular digits to become cryptic, artistic and abstract.
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: There is this wrist surrounding line (ito in japanese) which adapts in the case region to show the four digits of the time display. The line itself can always be seen completely, but it is not illuminated.
Design submitted by Peter from the UK.
Peter says: This is “Trylon” a 12-5-9 format LED watch.
I had an idea to design a watch based on the image of the “flux capacitor” from the time traveling Delorean from the “back to the future” movies. In the development stage I had more of a Cylon image in my head and ended up with something between a Cylon and the robot spaceships from the first star-wars films which had a “Y” shape face. The name “Trylon” came from the combination of the “Y” shape face and Cylon like lights.
Design submitted by Heather (USA) & Sam (Germany)
Heather & Sam say: AURA is a unisex sci-fi fashion LED watch for people who want to look well equipped for the future. The slim case is perforated by four vertically aligned holes, that instantly catch eyes.
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: The inspirations for this watch are the number pad of a phone and the metal bracelet Nekura watches.
Design submitted by Mark from New Zealand.
Mark says: “Archaeologists have discovered an ancient runic inscription on a piece of stone ballast in the preserved remains of an unearthed longship revealing that not only did the master rune that all runes are created from was used to write words, but also used to tell the time with each rune representing an hour of the day”.
Design submitted by Peter from the UK.
I wanted to come up with a very simple LED watch that uses easily recognizable digital numbers for quick time reading while looking abstract and cryptic the majority of the time.
Design submitted by Laszlo from Hungary.
Laszlo says: LCD or LED watch with time and date function.
Imagine a square, slice it to 9 equal parts. On every common side make a segment. They are the numbers 1-9. Cryptic at first glance but logical.
Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam says: NEON IO is a display concept, that came to being while working on the NEON concept. Instead of the classical 2×2 array, I’m using an inside-out display. Since the numbers are hollow, there is enough space in them to contain another number.