Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo by Jose Roca is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ngwá Ụlọ Competition Category.

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Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo

by Jose Roca

Client: Jose Roca Studio

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Ngwá Ụlọ Category

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The Design

About Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo

Tamsa bụ ụlọ ego igodo emere maka ụlọ. Tamsa nwere akụkụ abụọ, ite na-echekwa mkpụrụ ego na efere na-arụ ọrụ dị ka mkpuchi. Efere ahụ ka egide na ọnọdụ ya site na magnet neodymium atọ ma nwee ike ịgbanwe ya iji gbanwee ọdịdị ihe ahụ. Ite ahụ bụ ihe e ji ụrọ ojii na-egbuke egbuke rụọ, ebe efere ahụ bụ ihe e ji igwe rụọ nke nwere ọgwụgwọ eletrolytik nke na-enye ya ọdịdị yiri ọla brass. Mkpuchi rọba dị n'ime ite ahụ na-echebe ngwaahịa ahụ site na mkpụrụ ego na-adaba. Nha zuru ezu bụ 250 mm na 250 mm na 90 mm. Ọdịdị ahụ na-echetara mmadụ akụkọ ifo El Dorado na omenala ịchụ aja nke ọdịbendị Muisca.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. Tamsa Ọlụlụ Ego Igodo na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Tamsa's main purpose is to serve as a case for those coins we collect in our day by day journey in the most elegant and display full way. While most of the money banks are made to hide their purpose, Tamsa becomes a center piece that encourage the owner to make an offering to his savings.
Dimensions & Packaging: The main dimensions for this project are: 250 mm x 250 mm x 90 mm, decomposed into two main components, the base that is made out of black matte clay which dimensions are 244 mm x 244 mm x 80 mm, and a dish made out of steel with an electrolytic bath that give the brass finish, it's dimensions are 250 mm x 250 mm x 60 mm.
Tags: elegant, savings, offering, collect, essential, decorative, contemporary, home, ceramic, interior
Production Technology: Tamsa's main material are clay and galvanized steel with a electrolytic bath that give it's brass alike finish for its two main elements (the dish and the vase). But in addition this project count with other two additional elements that appeal more to the function, one of these is the rubber cover inside the vase, set there to protect the product from the coins that will be falling in, and second, a set of three neodymium magnets that help to fit the dish with the vase, making the product more safe in its manipulation.
Design Challenge: The main challenges in the development of Tamsa was defining the best way to abstract and represent many concepts of a culture that merge with myths and bring them together into a timeless context with a piece that results intuitive and meaningful to the user.
Research: To develop Tamsa, the main focus was to create a product inspired in one of South America most important pre Columbian cultures, the Muiscas, yet transcendent in a way that can be placed in any context and still be understood in its meaning and function. Analyzing multiple aspects of their culture, myths, legends and traditions through comparison tables was determined that the El Dorado legend could be the best reference to start working. With the help of focus groups and checking on traditional manufacturing methods Tamsa was born.
Inspiration: Tamsa means offering in Chibcha, a South American tribe that had a ritual where the heir to the throne got covered in gold and emeralds to then get washed in the guatavita lagoon as an offer to the gods. The Spanish conqueror Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada was the first to witness this, giving origin to the El Dorado legend, a city covered in gold. Tamsa is a memory between the ritual and the myth that recreate that act of offering for a better future in the most elegant way.
Project Duration: This is a project that starter as an idea back in May 2018, was left as a simple sketch until June 2019 when the prototyping started after multiple tests, back and forwards, the product is starting production by October 2019.
Operation Flow: Tamsa consists of two parts, the vase where the money is stored and the dish that works as a lid that protect the valuables. This second is secured with a magnetic system that allow to reposition it over the vase to create different aspects of the same product depending on the environment where is placed.
Team Members: Jose Roca
Image Credits: Jose Roca Studio, 2019.