Anima Code Асабісты пячатка by Takuma Yamazaki

Anima Code Асабісты пячатка by Takuma Yamazaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Бронзавая прэмія A' Design Award in Ідэйны і канцэптуальны дызайн Competition Category.

БронзаІдэя· 2021

Anima Code Асабісты пячатка

by Takuma Yamazaki

Client: Takuma Yamazaki

Бронзавая прэмія A' Design Award Winner in Ідэя Category

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The Design

About Anima Code Асабісты пячатка

Anima Code — гэта асабістая пячатка з выгравіраваным QR-кодам. Код змяшчае ключ доступу да лічбавых дадзеных чалавека ў інтэрнэце. Многія людзі фіксуюць сваё жыццё ў сацыяльных сетках, аднак гэтыя архівы часта становяцца недаступнымі пасля смерці. Anima Code дазваляе блізкім адсканаваць загадзя пастаўлены адбітак і атрымаць доступ да лічбавых архіваў памерлага. Пячатка вырабленая з празрыстага акрылу, дакладныя памеры дасягаюцца лазерным гравіраваннем, а яе даўжыня складае 62 мм пры перасеку 10 мм на 10 мм. Упакоўка зроблена з дрэва паўлоўніі — матэрыялу, які здаўна выкарыстоўваецца ў Японіі для захоўвання рэчаў.

The Recognition

About the Бронзавая прэмія A' Design Award

Anima Code Асабісты пячатка — пераможца Бронзавай прэміі A' Design Award, высокапрэстыжнага прызнання, якое прысуджаецца выдатным дызайнам, што вылучаюцца творчасцю, вынаходлівасцю і праніклівасцю. Бронзавыя пераможцы — гэта ўмелыя і ўражліва творчыя артэфакты, якія пацвярджаюць вялікі вопыт, уяўленне і знаходлівасць сваіх дызайнераў. Чакаецца, што Anima Code Асабісты пячатка — гэта высока цэнены, захапляльны і любімы прадмет, надзвычай прафесійны і інавацыйны. Гэты дызайн, што атрымаў Бронзавую прэмію A' Design Award, уключае лепшыя практыкі ў мастацтве, навуцы, дызайне і тэхналогіях і выдатны ўвагай да дэталей. Anima Code Асабісты пячатка цудоўна задавальняе патрэбы, кранае жаданні, зачароўвае пачуцці і ўзбуджае цікаўнасць.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Anima Code is a Hanko (Japanese personal seal) with an engraved QR code. The unique code contains a key to a person's online digital data, and after his or her death, the bereaved ones can reach the person's digital archives by scanning the code stamped beforehand. Through the physical interaction of stamping a seal, this project explores the secure yet intimate approach for inheritance in the digital era.
Dimensions & Packaging: The dimensions of the stamp are 10mm square and 62mm long; the proportions complement the delicacy and precision of the QR code engraving. The packaging is made of paulownia wood, a material that is highly airtight and suitable for storage to maintain proper internal humidity. The box made of paulownia wood has been used in Japan since ancient times to store and preserve porcelain and art objects, and also means "inheritance".
Tags: Hanko, Seal, Digital, Inheritance, QR Code, Analogue, Social Media, Die, Graves, Tomb
Production Technology: This product adopts acrylic as a major material for its highly weather-resistant and processability. This transparent material is also a metaphor for the intangibility and ambiguity of digital data and its anti-ageing property. In cooperation with a technical manufacturer, it will be laser-engraved to cut out highly precise dimensions. The engraved surface will also be hydrophilic coated for sharp-edge printing so that a camera can read at 10mm square QR code.
Design Challenge: In terms of the attempt to bridge the present world to afterlife, this product exists between the real and unreal worlds. Because of its unique characteristic of the project, the biggest challenge was how I could design ambiguity without ruining the function as a stamp. For proceeding the project, deliberation and respect for various cultures and religions are also required, reconciling diverse views on life and death with the universality of the event of passing away.
Research: In addition to the digital data after one’s death, the shortage of land for cemeteries and their management has become a social issue in recent times. In a complex age that is technology-driven but still largely material, this project examines the end of life from both digital and analogue perspectives. Through the miniaturization of graves and the harmonization of data and physicality, this product is intended to be an alternative solution to these problems.
Inspiration: Since the rise and domination of social media, many of us continue to leave a trace of our life online with texts, photos and videos. While that uploaded media collective has the potential to projects a multifaceted view of an individual's life, however, once the contributor dies, such digital archives are forgotten and not accessible to even our loved ones. I found the possibility of a physical and emotional act of stamping as a solution to this ongoing social issue.
Project Duration: Began in Japan in 2019 and is underway for official launch in 2021.
Operation Flow: Users register their social media accounts with the product through a dedicated service before their death. A stamp is produced with an imprinted QR code that serves as an access key to those online services. People who are given the seal will be able to read it with a camera and access the archived data of the deceased.
Team Members: Takuma Yamazaki
Image Credits: Photo:Takuma Yamazaki
Design: Takuma Yamazaki