Innovation Prize
for Vodafone

The product is made of a handcrafted, handshaped, colored resin with a paper-based material and silversmith work of the wonderful jewel designer Dori Visy. The jewel’s body, the raw material itself is flexible, freely shapable and reshapable by hand anytime, it just needs hot water (or any sort of heat, like a simple room-radiator) to get it softened, and cold water to fix. Even if the user don’t get the possibility of that in a particular product (only some of the endproducts are flexible, the ones without paper inside), working and ideating with a wearable jewel as a silversmith has much more possibility than simply just a rigid object.

The resin composit is not made by the official measurements to get the wanted effect, so it had to be precisely researched and tested during the developement to get effect work and make it stable. If the material is not able to fix it remains sticky or simply just liquid, or of the fixer is too much it can brake of cook itself into broken bits. The outcome of the research is a material that gets felxible to heat, and by end of the fixing process (the cooldown) it becomes rigid again, easy to cut and engrave, and even colorisable.

The project was a faboulus challenge and we were really happy with the endproduct. With this way of product design the artistic choices are not only the artists’ privilege to make, but the users themselves as well. Via designcommunication the user becomes the designer of it’s own selfexpression through the design of wearable jewellery.