Tamsa 貯金箱 by Jose Roca is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
銅家具· 2020
Tamsa 貯金箱
by Jose Roca
Client: Jose Roca Studio
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 家具 Category
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About Tamsa 貯金箱
Tamsaは家庭用に設計された貯金箱です。Tamsaは、硬貨を収納する花器状の本体と、蓋の役割を果たすディッシュ（皿）という2つの部分で構成されています。ディッシュは3つのネオジム磁石によって固定され、位置を変えることで作品の表情を変化させることができます。本体はブラックマットの陶土製で、ディッシュは電解浴処理によって真鍮のような仕上がりを施したスチール製です。本体内部のラバーカバーが、落下する硬貨から製品を保護します。全体のサイズは250mm×250mm×90mmです。そのフォルムは、エルドラドの伝説とムイスカ文化の奉納儀式を想起させます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Tamsa 貯金箱は、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Tamsa 貯金箱は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Tamsa 貯金箱は、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
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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.
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