Clink is a coin bank, inspired by the designer parent’s financial responsibility to the family. With periodical addition of coins on the top platform, the increased weight results in the platform giving way to empty the coins into the vessel underneath the platform. Clink was featured in Milan Design Week 2019 and won the Wallpaper* Handmade competition with the theme of ‘Love’.
To the designer, his parents epitomizes the responsibility that they will always shoulder for the family.
Shouldering the burden of the family finances yet being critical of their own expenditure, the importance of savings was seeded in the designer during his formative years
Clink is constructed from 2 metals that are commonly used in the production of coins, zinc and copper. Copper being ductile and malleable, representing the father’s resilience and the mother’s adaptability to circumstances.
It is utilized in the construction of the platform and the base, signifying the parent’s role as a solid foundation for the family.
The Zinc represents their expectations of his son, metal that is relatively resistant to corrosion, they hope for their son to stand firm to his principles and does not bowl down to unnecessary societal pressures
The mechanism is inspired by the act of ‘cumulation of savings over time’. Like the platform which is under pressure until the coins are emptied, the financial responsibility shouldered by them is only lightened when there are surpluses to be saved.
