Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel by Takuma Yamazaki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award i Bronse in Idé og konseptuell design Competition Category.
BronseIdé· 2021
Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel
Client: Takuma Yamazaki
A' Design Award i Bronse Winner in Idé Category
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About Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel
Anima Code er et personlig seglstempel med en inngravert QR-kode. Koden inneholder en tilgangsnøkkel til en persons digitale data på nettet. Mange mennesker dokumenterer livene sine på sosiale medier, men disse arkivene blir ofte utilgjengelige etter døden. Anima Code gjør det mulig for etterlatte å skanne en kode som er stemplet på forhånd, og få tilgang til den avdødes digitale arkiver. Stemplet er laget av gjennomsiktig akryl, laserinngravert med presise dimensjoner, og måler 10 mm i kvadrat og 62 mm i lengde. Emballasjen er laget av paulownia-tre, et materiale som lenge har blitt brukt i Japan til oppbevaring.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Bronse
Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel er vinner av A' Design Award i Bronse, en høyt prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles enestående design som utmerker seg ved kreativitet, oppfinnsomhet og skarpsindighet. Bronsevinnere er rikt dyktige og påfallende kreative gjenstander som bekrefter designernes store erfaring, fantasi og ressurssterkhet. Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel forventes å være en høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt gjenstand som er bemerkelsesverdig profesjonell og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Bronse, rommer beste praksis innen kunst, vitenskap, design og teknologi og utmerker seg ved sin omtanke for detaljer. Anima Code Personlig Seglstempel tilfredsstiller behov på en strålende måte, berører ønsker, sjarmerer følelser og vekker nysgjerrighet.
Behind the Design
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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
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