Color Rings by Israeli designer Itay Ohaly are pieces of jewellery carved from layers of coloured paint applied to a wooden table.
Ohaly spends months applying a layer of acrylic paint per day, then slices through the thick surface to create the raw material for the rings.
The rings often include slices of timber from the table beneath the paintwork.
Here’s some info from Ohaly:
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The rings were carved out of an old painting table, taken from a children’s furnitures carpentry.
It takes 4 month of daily painting to reach this thickness, creating a new material to work with.
The layers are acrylic paint, while the wood is a part of the original painting table.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
August 24th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Sweet looking! I wonder how durable a chunk of acrylic paint is though..but I guess if you can tool it, you can probably wear it around for a while before the paint starts to huh… chip?
August 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
great idea, great execution
August 24th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
some of them look smart and chic indeed
August 25th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Come on!
August 25th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Seems like some Sunday morning kids DIY project. it will only have a meaning if you do it yourself. buying it just a waste.
August 25th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
It’s just grand…
It is a ‘analogue’ rendition of Rapid Manufacturing…
I like-like…
August 25th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
There is a similar substance called ‘Fordite’ that is the paint residue “harvested” from the paintbooths of automobile manufacturing sites. There are artists working in Michigan with the material that tends to be more colorful than the material posted.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Delightful.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:05 am
great !
August 28th, 2008 at 1:42 am
thisis neat where do i buy one??
August 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
hideous. truly. who would ever wear a thing like that? My daughter when she was 4, maybe.
August 30th, 2008 at 6:59 am
no way, totally cute. agree on the durability issue, but i would definitely wear these around for awhile if they weren’t super expensive. be hones,t though, no one would actually spend the time to make these themselves if they weren’t making s profit off selling them. i’m sure it took a while. plus they look pretty good.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:03 am
please, don’t sit there & say “come on!” you didn’t tbink of it, & you took the time to click on thise peice of jewelry because you probably thought it looked cool.
August 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am
absolutely love them. where can i buy?
August 30th, 2008 at 11:54 am
When I was 16, I studied furniture maker. After painting a furniture we took out layered paint from support and made axactly the same for our first loves. It was smelly and without use (fragile) but as a present they fell in love with us. When PC came into the fashion, we made keyboard rings (was also presented here by somebody else). It was a few years after komunist time in czech. We had an era at that time we call it HOME ART, now they call it SUSTAINABLE DESIGN because of the recycling. If you are student and do these things for fun than its very nice. But presenting it as a profesional design on dezeen? Please, where the design goes now?
August 30th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
perfect!
cooool!
i love it!
September 1st, 2008 at 3:36 am
lovely lovely lovely : )
September 10th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Just came across this thread.
I am known as Mr Fordite having discovered this material in the 70’s.
30 years on I am still making fordite gems.Check out my ebay shop.FORDITE-UK
September 12th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Very unique yet so stylish =)
September 16th, 2008 at 1:06 am
How healthy can it be to wear paint? :/
How healthy could it be to sniff paint vapors for that long!
I’d soooo hafta pass.