HoursMinutesSecondsDay

red dot
red dot award: design concept 2008

design:

Ioannis-Alexandros Stasinopoulos

HoursMinutesSecondsDay (HMSD) is a system that separates time information into different watch-bracelet devices, allowing the wearer to choose their measure of time as well as the way they wear the watch-bracelets on their body.

There are thousands of devices on the market that tell the time, meeting a range of price points, levels of technology, and degrees of crafting. In general, many of them share the same method of presenting the time – with the use of a single display. However, time has a different meaning for each and every one of us. For one person, every second may count. For someone else, just an indication of the day may be enough. Time does not fly at the same speed for everyone.

HMSD is a system that separates time information into different watch-bracelet devices. As such, someone can choose the time information that they wish to access, and the arrangement of the watch-bracelets on the body. Each autonomous watch- bracelet displays a specific measure of time – hours, minutes, seconds and the day. This configuration may serve both practical and aesthetic purposes (allowing for a greater degree of self-expression). As such, the wearer can choose the measure of time that suits their preferences, or even wear a configuration of watch-bracelets that would tell the time in different time zones (by wearing two hour bracelets, for example). Colour options and the abillity to wear HMSD on either wrists or ankles offer further means of self-expression.