Is it possible to have ThePresent aligned to the Southern Hemisphere?Ībsolutely. This is pretty customary, but for backers living in countries with import duties and taxes, these costs will have to be covered by the backers at delivery. The shipping costs as they stand are the exact prices USPS (International) & FedEx Ground (Domestic) charge.Įmail me at if you have any more questions about this FAQ Last updated: J17:44 However, if you do add items to your pledge - I will still honor the shipping costs that are stipulated in your reward (within reason). Producing the movements in Germany and having the clock bodies manufactured and assembled in Brooklyn, NY makes it impossible for me to offer any further discounts than the already heavily discounted Kickstarter backer prices that are on display. For example you would increase your pledge $88 to add and extra desk clock or whatever additional item(s) you have in mind. If you want to add say, a 5” desk clock of ThePresent - simply increase your existing pledge to reflect the listed price of the clock. So the solution is to choose the reward level that is closest to what you want and includes the key items you hope to get. I don’t like it when I go to a Kickstarter that I want to back and the rewards are all over the place. At this point I do not want to make any new reward tiers as it already feels a bit confusing. On day one of the launch I started making specific reward tiers for special requests. I have been getting this question a lot (thankfully!) I want a particular reward that you are not offering - how can I pledge for exactly what I want? My grocery store has 31 different kinds of ice cream - why do we limit our perception of time to only one flavor? Last updated: J17:33 TODAY is a new frame of reference for how you relate to time. This is more about forming a romantic relationship with time, so that you can begin to look forward to each day, as if it were your first. The graphic is fixed and is not meant to change throughout the day to mark the ever changing times of sunrise and sunset. The final art as you see it now is the result of that experimentation. Since last summer I’ve tested several dozen designs over time by living with them to “feel” the arc of day in this new way. It is more of a suggestion that makes space for you to form a new sense of balance. The gradual dissolves between phases of the day exist in this design to form a balance point, a horizon that quickly becomes a new and refreshing reference point to gauge your day.Īlthough the times of TODAY alway line up at 6am - noon - 6pm and midnight etc - the gradient is not meant to be an extremely accurate representation of the actual sunrise and sunset throughout the year for where you live. The challenge of the design has been to get the “feeling” of time right. TODAY is a ode to the soft dissolve of one phase of the day into the next. The design of TODAY is inspired by the impossible beauty of how night becomes morning, morning becomes day, day becomes evening and evening becomes night. Sunrise and sunset change a lot throughout the year, how does the design of TODAY take this into account. i currently have a desk clock version of TODAY an arms length away on my standing desk and I cannot hear it - and that is before the “soft gears” & sound dampening cradle. The movement will rest in a custom cradle that is made of sound dampening foam.Īfter all of this I can 98% guarantee that there will not be a noise issue. This is a critical detail for me and I felt comfortable launching the Kickstarter only because I have in my possession a prototype movement that uses custom “soft gears” to dampen the sound even more.īeyond having the world’s quietest 24 hour movement - efforts will be taken to dampen any chance of sound echoing within the clock body. If you hold it against your ear, you will hear the clicking - but at arms length it is dead silent. The prototype they developed is extremely quiet. That’s where the team of German engineers that designed and manufactured the world’s first 365 day movement stepped in. There were no existing 24 hour movements that were quiet enough. After living with it for several weeks, if I could hear it consistently - I would eventually have to move it to the discard pile. With each movement - I would print the latest version of the design and build a clock. I’ve purchased and made prototypes out of every existing 24 hour movement in the world that I could acquire. As far as I am concerned, if you can hear TODAY “tick-tocking” it utterly defeats the purpose. JQuery('div#gfl-homesort-price-toggle').Long answer: Besides the art itself and print quality, this is the most crucial element of the design. Log in to your account to change the currency.
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