What Will Happen If The Technology Becomes Invisible

By Ploi Malakul | February 16th, 2012 | Discuss

Empty Memory ($75) is a jewellery collection that works as USB memory sticks. Every single piece was casted in high-quality 316 stiainless steel, hand-polished by craftsmen and finished with various colours.
Each design contains a physical emptiness in its sculptural form, giving the metaphor that you can fill the space with your own memory.

This USB drive is the first collection in production by London based design studio Logical Art, formed by designer Yoo-Kyung Shin and Hanhsi Chen after their graduation from Royal College of Art. Sharing the same interests about the collision of technology and craftsmanship, they ponder over the ultimate question “what will happen if the technology becomes invisible.” Shin and Chen consider the Empty Memory collection as their first response to this long quest.

The collection comes with two different designs – Structure and Transparency, which are the results of two different approaches regarding the same concept by each designer. The complicated shape of Structure can only be made with Lost-Wax Casting as an unibody. The Lost-Wax Casting process is normally applied for industrial components; it is not easy to maintain high production volume while keeps the quality of craftsmanship. After a long period of searching, one and only one manufacturer in Taiwan successfully achieved this high standard and this project is under production now. #Wishlisted ❚

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Ploi Malakul is a passionate representative of minimalistic graphic and design. Her origins from the Thai metropolis of Bangkok are reflected in her internationally awarded designs

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