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Tamsa 저금통 by Jose Roca

Tamsa 저금통 by Jose Roca is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 동상 in 가구 디자인 Competition Category.


동가구· 2020

Tamsa 저금통

by Jose Roca

Client: Jose Roca Studio

A' Design Award 동상 Winner in 가구 Category

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The Design

About Tamsa 저금통

탐사(Tamsa)는 가정용으로 디자인된 저금통이다. 탐사는 동전을 보관하는 화병과 뚜껑 역할을 하는 접시, 두 부분으로 구성된다. 접시는 세 개의 네오디뮴 자석으로 고정되며, 위치를 바꾸어 작품의 외관에 변화를 줄 수 있다. 화병은 검은색 무광 점토로 제작되었고, 접시는 강철에 전해 도금 처리를 하여 황동과 같은 마감을 구현했다. 화병 내부의 고무 커버는 떨어지는 동전으로부터 제품을 보호한다. 전체 크기는 250mm × 250mm × 90mm이다. 그 형태는 엘도라도 전설과 무이스카 문화의 봉헌 의식을 떠올리게 한다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 동상

Tamsa 저금통, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 동상 수상작으로, 창의성, 독창성, 영민함으로 돋보이는 뛰어난 디자인에 수여되는 높은 권위의 인정입니다. 동상 수상작은 충분히 숙련되고 인상적으로 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 폭넓은 경험, 상상력, 기지를 입증합니다. Tamsa 저금통, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 사물로서 두드러지게 전문적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 동상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 모범 사례를 담고 있으며 세부에 대한 주의로 훌륭합니다. Tamsa 저금통, 이 작품은 필요를 훌륭하게 충족하고 욕망에 닿으며 감정을 매료하고 호기심을 불러일으킵니다.

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.

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