“Omimiai”
Ear Meets Pottery
“Omimiai”
Ear Meets Pottery
Ear Meets Pottery
People can match with best pottery earrings by scanning their ears in this machine.
Context
Japan’s Saga Prefecture produces a very wide variety of pottery Japan’s representative pottery production area.
But the potters' failed works and unsold pottery are broken and disposed of as industrial waste.
Besides productions has been decreasing year by year due to changes in eating habits that not particular about tableware.
We thought about how we could live with people as fragments, without being thrown away and how to get a new group of young customers.
Japan’s Saga Prefecture produces a very wide variety of pottery Japan’s representative pottery production area.
But the potters' failed works and unsold pottery are broken and disposed of as industrial waste.
Besides productions has been decreasing year by year due to changes in eating habits that not particular about tableware.
We thought about how we could live with people as fragments, without being thrown away and how to get a new group of young customers.
Creative Idea
Pottery fragments which are imperfect products generated in the pottery production process and regularly deposed of as industrial waste are crafted into items familiar to young people as earrings.
We developed a matching machine that uses an advanced scanning technology is applied to obtain the digital data of people’s ear and pottery’s colors, shapes, sizes, and other characteristics of 10,000 pottery fragments also converted into data to find the best earrings for each person.
This is EAR meets POTTERY.
Pottery fragments which are imperfect products generated in the pottery production process and regularly deposed of as industrial waste are crafted into items familiar to young people as earrings.
We developed a matching machine that uses an advanced scanning technology is applied to obtain the digital data of people’s ear and pottery’s colors, shapes, sizes, and other characteristics of 10,000 pottery fragments also converted into data to find the best earrings for each person.
This is EAR meets POTTERY.
