REconstruction is an interactive accessory for office workers.
Office workers often feel bored and pressured while working. Therefore the concept is going to let people get delightful feedback simultaneously when they work, by transforming the workers’ emotion into pleasure.
Four stationery accessories, stapler, calculator, tape dispenser and pen holder are designed as a concrete city. While using, it’s like building own city. Concrete is chosen to present architecture and urban feeling and give users cold and serious sense at first sight. However when they use them, they understand how interesting the products are by further interaction with people. It generates a contrast experience and makes the feeling stronger.
Stapler-making your mark- user can choose the face showed user’s feeling to impress on the paper. The impression face mark and staple compose a complete face. User will understand that whether sad or happy at that time, temper will disappear by time like impression face mark.利用釘書機抒發當時工作的心情,讓心情印在紙上,用隱喻的方式表達自己的情感,而這感覺跟紙上的印記一樣會跟著時間慢慢消逝,情感也會撫平.
Calculator-the music you created- This concrete calculator can record the order user press. After that, user just needs to push play button and then calculator will play a song what user make before. The boring typing thing is transform a lovely music to user.
Tape dispenser-reminding you take a break- The wheel which has six symbols of break reminder on it rolls as how long tape is taken by user. They are rolling together at the same time. Besides, there is a triangle target to point which icon worker need to do for break.
Pen holder-create surprise- There are two parts in this products holder and little figure eraser on the top surface. It is random to make eraser jump out while worker put the pen inside the holder. It makes surprise and fun with unknown timing.
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