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Three Rings, ONE Calendar

By Ray Hu - December 3, 2012

in Object Culture

Korean designer Jeong Yong is pleased to present his latest project, "a table calendar composed with three differently-sized rings." Simply called "ONE," the series of rings represents the date with indicators on each ring: one for the month, one for the day of the month and one for the day of the week.

The rings are held together by magnets such that the intersection point of the three rings indicates today's date.

At first, I was under the impression that ONE was somehow motorized, but that is clearly not the case. (There are a number of obvious mechanical challenges: for example, how would it skip the 31st on months with 30 days?) It's an interesting concept for sure, but more as a sort of real-life visualization of time than a practical calendar.

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kk

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Both look like the mechanical interpretation of the mayan calendar--the sacred round.
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powers

12 years ago

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@4P1B - Indeed it does, and they are both nice.

In my head, I've always pictured the calender as a circle rather than a rectangle. I'd love to have a mechanical version with a clock in the center.
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4P1B Design Studio

12 years ago

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it looks like one of our products designed in 2011

http://www.4p1b.com/portfolio/everyday-rossociliegia/
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