Design : SeungBum Ma

Team : SeungBum Ma, Euijung Sung
Photograph : SeungBum Ma

It is a series of works that design everyday tools as monumental architectural objects. By experimenting with the various formal languages of architecture on a small scale, Studio SMA wanted to create small buildings that create an atmosphere and give small pleasures even when viewed quietly. A business card holder and seals in three sizes, small, medium, and large were designed.

It is an object composed of columns and a horizontal plate. Designed as a business card holder. The space between the columns arranged in a grid allows the free arrangement of business cards, and the flat plate slightly lifted from the ground respects and supports the objects placed on top of it. The diagonally sliced pillars allow convenient insertion and removal of objects on the horizontal slab and give directionality to the overall shape. When the sun hits it, it casts quite a decent shadow.

It is a seal and a seal station made of aluminum masses subtracted with diagonal line and circle. The act of sealing is a symbolic and substantial to engrave my name on. However, it is also a fun and enjoyable play in itself. Studio SMA wanted to create a small monument that reveals trust, confidence, and certainty. It is an object that makes the beholder feel good just by looking at it and seduce you to touch and use it. The mass of aluminum, which has a sense of appropriate weight and presence, is placed in different directions according to my mood, casting soft reflected light and shadows at different angles. When a new book arrives, dispatch.