Excessive-end Swedish watchmaker Anicorn has introduced a collaboration with Kojima Productions and NASA, leading to a fantastic watch referred to as Homo Ludens (opens in new tab). It is silver with golden particulars, with NASA stamped prominently below-centre on the dial, and the Kojima Productions tagline of ‘From Sapiens to Ludens’ engraved on the outer casing.
Anicorn says that the undertaking’s been two years within the making, and it designed the watch below the supervision of Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa. The watch apparently represents “the correlation of Time, House and Homo Ludens” and Anicorn was “impressed by Ludens to proclaim creativity, creativeness and the play component in tradition.”
Ludens is the title of the Kojima Productions mascot (designed by Shinkawa and representing an astronaut exploring digital area), and little doubt Kojima’s delighted that they had been in a position to get the NASA brand on there (the area company has beforehand collaborated with Anicorn). The timepiece’s design is supposed to echo that of the EVA (Further Vehicular Exercise and a pleasant Evangelion reference) go well with, to the extent that the gross sales materials calls it an “EVA Inventive Swimsuit on the wrist.”
The watch is not the one factor that is come out of this, oh no. There is a t-shirt with the NASA brand on the entrance and the Kojima Productions motto on the again with EVA go well with particulars, and likewise a Ludens sacoche, which is French for bag. They could not name it a Ludens bag?
Then the pièce de résistance: “Completely included within the Uncommon Version, Ludens Masks is a 1:1 life measurement collectible that’s really wearable—Everybody of us is Ludens.”
Yeah you learn that proper. This factor is named, and it deserves the all-caps, SPACE LUDENS and comes within the Ludens Masks Uncommon Version. 100 of those shall be out there, and they’re produced to a film props customary (no matter meaning, I’ve seen some fairly dangerous film props) by means of the “Multi Jet Fusion course of”. Which does sound like relatively an thrilling solution to make a masks.
SPACE LUDENS shall be “offered in a particular field which incorporates a steel numbered plate with particular person quantity and a tailor-made booklet of the collaboration story. Further particular artwork dealing with gloves are included within the Uncommon Version.” Together with artwork dealing with gloves for a cranium masks? This collaboration has some chutzpah alright.
Ought to you may have what I think about shall be a number of thousand {dollars} spare, the watch etcetera goes on-sale on 27 September. Anicorn’s numerous collaborations all appear to promote out fairly shortly, and this shall be no exception. The remainder of us can, I suppose, stare into area.