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Change the way you see your day
Introducing Today
A 24-hour clock that simplifies the day into a perfect balance of dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight.
The clear, intuitive design of Today takes the edge off of time.
Using a 24-hour movement engineered and assembled in Germany, Today quietly moves at half the speed of a regular clock, making one full rotation every day.
The result is a timepiece that makes you feel like you have more time.
Living with Today stretches your perception of time to make space for all of the things in life that cannot be counted.
Give yourself time
I’ve lived with Today since last summer, and now I wonder how I ever lived without it. Today inspires a sense of renewal, calm, and perhaps most importantly, balance.
Today has helped me regulate my sleep patterns and resonate with the idea that every day is a gift.
I'm on Kickstarter to share this powerful timepiece with you because I'm confident that living with Today will do the same or something similarly profound for you.
What the press is saying about Today
"Today is a revolutionary gift to the world." Huffington Post
"See the day in a whole new light." Techcrunch
"It's a simple but effective perspective shift that can change how you think about your waking hours in a way that makes it seem like you've been magically handed more time." AIGA - Eye on Design
Design inspiration
The design of the face tries to capture that feeling of wonder you get when you look out at the clouds passing by from 30,000 ft. My hope is that Today brings the limitless potential you feel up there, down here.
The spectrum of time
Today is the spiritual follow-up to my first Kickstarter project, ThePresent, the 365-day clock that reframes your perception of the year.
The creative adventure of producing, distributing, and giving talks about ThePresent gradually opened my mind to seeing time as a spectrum.
Think of it this way: on one end of the “spectrum of time” you have the standard clock that reveals every second of every minute of every hour at a glance.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, we find ThePresent.
As a balancing corrective between these two points on the "spectrum of time" is Today, a timepiece that reveals the entire day at a glance.
Let's start Today
I've brought three different styles of prototypes to 90% and I need your support and input to finalize the finishing touches and push this project to completion.
Pictured below are the final prototypes of Today, available in 3 different constructions.
TODAY - 5" Desk Clock - Bamboo - $88
TODAY - 11" Wall Clock - Bamboo - $118
TODAY - 11" Steel and Glass Wall Clock - $158
We are also offering ThePresent, my first Kickstarter project, as a reward bundle option.
The bottom 4 rewards to your right contain ThePresent as a bundle option.
Today specs
Diameter
- Bamboo Desk Clock: 5" in diameter and 1.5" deep.
- Bamboo Wall Clock: 11" and 1.5" deep.
- Steel and Glass Wall Clock: 11” in diameter and 2.25” deep.
Weight:
- Bamboo Desk Clock: 1.0 lbs.
- Bamboo Wall Clock: 1.4 lbs.
- Steel and Glass Wall Clock: 2.0 lbs.
Battery life
- Requires two AA batteries.
- Designed to run for a minimum of 3 years.
Making time
- Production of all Steel and Glass and Bamboo Clocks in the USA
- Transporting all components to and from vendors to final assembly
- Tooling costs for smaller hand to be used in the Desk Clock
- Tooling costs for branding "Today" into steel battery backplate
- Perfecting the highest quality print to last for decades
- Post Kickstarter e-commerce site design and build
- Engineering and assembly of the movement itself
- Quality control, fulfillment, handling and shipping
- Time and small staff to help bring Today to life
- Packaging design, prototyping, and execution
- Assembly of the clocks and quality control
- Kickstarter and Stripe processing fees
- MOQ for the custom domed glass cover
- Contingency
Why make Today?
What people are saying about ThePresent
"It helps me find some grounding, or a moment of reflection, a good thought, a deep breath..."
"A subtle reminder to be present throughout the day."
“This is seriously one of my favorite things. Besides the iPhone, I don't think I've ever been impacted this hard by anything I've ever owned...it's art.”
"It is a gentle reminder to breathe."
"ThePresent removed the borders, the constraints. It's a ballerina's pirouette, a swan's glide, a wind with no beginning or end."
"It grounds me and shows me where I am in time."
What the press is saying about ThePresent
My team
Back to 1st person...On a personal note, I feel like I am in the right place at the right time most of the time. My work with ThePresent and now Today is the most profound and exciting thing I can imagine doing with my time.
Rux Design: RUX is a NYC-based design studio specializing in product innovation, design, and brand creation. Since its beginning in 2008 RUX has founded 2 companies, partnered with 4 startups, designed 1 mosque, filed over 20 patents, and worked with Unilever, Samsung, Mozilla Firefox, and Pernod Ricard, among others. Its founder Russell Greenberg was an early believer in ThePresent, and he and his team played a critical role in the design and fabrication of the original ThePresent clock. He is happy to continue this strategic partnership and friendship in the creation of Today.
Kenneth Bachor
Scott Thrift
Special thanks:
Eric Epstein
Marc Winn
Stop living everyday like it's your last.
Start living everyday like it's your first.
Riesgos y desafíos
Whenever there is manufacturing, there is a risk for delays. However, after running two successful campaigns and distributing 3,000 clocks, I am confident that your clocks will be delivered on time and on budget. If for any reason there are delays, I will be fully transparent about that.
If I am unable to deliver by December as suggested, it will only be because my focus is on delivering a great product that lasts a lifetime. The most important lesson I learned from making ThePresent was that rushing to hit an arbitrary deadline caused nearly every problem I had with production.
If there are any significant delays you will know exactly why as I will be as transparent as possible. But I would rather deliver something later than expected than deliver something that is not up to my standards.
The nature of these clocks to reframe your perception of time and I am lucky that I've listened to them over the years and allowed this to influence my process. I do not foresee any reasons for a significant delay but I hope you will be supportive of the production of the highest quality product possible.
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