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With a watch-face that’s practically a minimalist artpiece, the Overlap by Alvaro Alvarez and Maria Lopez for Projects Watches quite literally makes it look like the watch band is entering the body and weaving right through the dial of the watch. Of course, with the lovely combination of black (band and body) along with the white face of the watch, you’ve got something that isn’t just unusual, it’s high-contrast too, which makes its unusual ‘overlap’ stand out from afar.
Even the hands on the watch evoke the feeling of overlap. Right at the center, you’ve got a small seconds dial that rotates mechanically like a gear, while the hour and minute hands at the rim of the watch look like two puzzle pieces that fit together when they align. The thicker hour symbol does a slow, methodical rotation around the rim, while the slimmer minute symbol does a full round every 60 minutes, overlapping graphically with the hour symbol 22 times in the entire day. A perfect watch for the quirky, minimalism lover!
Designers: Alvaro Alvarez & Maria Lopez for Projects Watches
The unusual beauty of the Carve watch by Alessio Romano comes from the way its watch face acts as a home for probably one of the most beautiful textures to ever find itself on timepieces. The hammered texture is often found on malleable metals like copper or brass, giving the otherwise plain metal surface a wonderful play of high-contrast light and shade. Romano’s Carve watch borrows that texture, introducing it to the watch-face, turning an otherwise plain and minimal watch into a textural work of art. If there were any way my finger could go through the glass on top and just simply stroke the scallops of the hammered texture, that’s realistically all I’d do throughout the day.
Romano cites Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” as a source of inspiration for the Carve’s pure, monolithic design. The texture on the face brings a dynamism to the otherwise plain surface treatment, giving you a face that alters as the light sources around you move or change. I especially love the way the date-window integrates itself into the hammered texture too!
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Video game projects may have found their stride in the crowdfunding world. According to ICO Partners, fewer games are being pitched on Kickstarter, but a greater percentage are reaching their goals. And the total amount raised by gaming campaigns is...
Kickstarter is asking its users to tone down the hyperbolic language and to layoff the misleading imagery. In an attempt to promote transparency, the now 10-year-old platform issued new rules and guidelines aimed at "honest and clear presentation."
Netflix's annual Hack Day event saw a host of funky projects this year, including a Redbox-style Netflix vending machine, a spooky new interface that makes eyes and heads of characters in thumbnails follow your cursor, an interface to track your bing...
