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Modern clock designers try to arouse us from deep sleep in a way that will give the users more surprise or freshness. And the Domino Clock features three dominoes that communicate wirelessly to display the time. “The numbering scheme on dominoes and dice developed as a way to represent numbers that’s immediately recognizable, so in a lot of ways it makes perfect sense to use it as a time piece,” explains Sullivan. But before you get the time accurately, you’ll firstly need to spend some time getting used to its unique way of telling the time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Nearly all the calendars we see nowadays are creative, and obviously the Life Calendar is among them too. “How was your day?” is the first of the series, which asks the users to draw different pictures so as to record their various emotions. Even though you still need to do some work, you’ll actually find it much easier to document your life with a Life Calendar rather than with a diary. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In form the clock designed by Daniel Weil of Pentagram is something like a spinning-wheel, but it’s actually a digital one running on single AA battery. It also tells time in a different way, displaying minutes on the outside and hours on the inside of a nickle-plated ring. So you think the clock is quite special, right? Hopefully the architect who would receive it as a gift would love it too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who says hour hand and minute hand of one same clock must be seperated? They can have certain connections, just like the Manifold Clock that features two hands connected to create a 3D movement. Thank you Studio Ve, that’s really impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Compared with regular wall clocks that are named as “Flower Clock”, the new one from Rafael Assandri seems more worthy of the name. Each petal here indicates five minutes, and a new petal will begin to expand whenever a new hour begins. Therefore with the flower blooming and fading and then another hour goes by. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Apparently Geneva-based Altanus has resulted in a world-wide revolution of timepieces after they announced to own the world’s first biodegradable paper watch “Patch”. Available in 10 neon colors, the Patch features a simple LED ticker and it is degradable in nature, therefore leaving little prints to the environment when the timepiece is no longer needed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Another day waking up on the farmland, with the shrill cry of a cock… But actually I’m still lying in my bed, which is of course in my apartment located inside the city. So how could I wake up on a farmland? All the secret lies in the Farmland Alarm Clock, which uses moos, baas and clucks to make you back from the sweet dreams. And to have the alarm stop ringing, you’ll need to slot the corresponding animal in above the large LCD display. Just have a try. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You must have noticed that people usually bend at the elbow to read the time, but do you know why they do that? Well, because they don’t have an Off-Axis Watch. Designed by Eric Janssen, the new watch features an innovative viewing axis that has been rotated clockwise by 30 degrees for convenient time-reading. [Read the rest of this entry...]

From Robotic Hands Clock to Bungee Jumping Mint Clock, Korean designer Jongchul Kim has surprised us with really amazing clocks. And right here is another wall clock that you’ll fancy. It’s the Marionette Clock, which shows time with its hanging hand that is hooked up with the string to two Mint Boys at the top. So as the Mint Boys ride their unicycles, the vertical wire length will be changed, and the time will then be displayed. Really interesting, isn’t it? [Read the rest of this entry...]

The invention and application of the digital players marks that the mankind have entered the Digital Age, during which period people seldom use vinyl records or CD players. But we never forget them, and designer Pavel Sidorenko has applied the clock idea to vinyl records, creating several clocks of various shapes. You see, here is a gun, a bird, a rabbit, a chair, a teapot, and all of them are laser-cut. Fantastic! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Since batteries are important parts of most clocks, why not just take them out of the back boxes and use them as the clocks’ hands? Having that in mind, The Wrong Objects designed the Front & Back clock that seems quite simple but still impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The designers never cease to bring forth new ideas. The latest invention is the Swing Clock, the dial plate of which keeps rocking from side to side as its hands turn slowly, creating unique hypnotic effect. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west everyday to indicate the changes of light; the spring, summer, autumn and winter rotate to indicate the changes of seasons. And now, the 12 figures that indicate the hours emerge and disappear to tell us how the time elapses. Dubbed “Re-clock”, the time-telling device features no minutes but merely 12 hours, which are indicated via 12 figures that gradually appear on the layers of cloth-face from midnight to the noon while then disappear successively from the noon to the next midnight. Simply put, the Re-clock changes everyday, “from zero to something, and vice versa”. [Read the rest of this entry...]

When asked how the time passes away, different people have different opinions. Some of them insist that time flows away like running water, and others may believe the time is always at a standstill. As for Gavin Henderson, the designer feels that time can grow taller and shorter. You don’t understand? Well, look carefully at the Vertical Clock. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Coming from German industrial designer Patrick Frey, ‘Gregor’ looks not that different compared with conventional ones. But when you want to leaf through the calendar, OMG, you need to unwind it stitch by stitch…That’s really interesting! Made from fiber, the knitted calendar will finally turn into a pile of thread. [Read the rest of this entry...]