The Crowdsourcing Blog

You probably have already seen a watch by japanese brand Tokyoflash – they have the strangest watches and whenever they release one, it gets posted on almost every gadget blog and the like.

Now they are holding a design challenge where people can submit their own cooky watch designs or as they call it “unique wrist watch design”.

They say “the submissions can be 3D renderings, 2D graphic designs, illustrations, sketches or simply text ideas” and they are publishing the best ones on the blog, hopefully getting some of them into production.

Here are some more detailed rules:

1. Your idea must be unique, unlike anything seen before.

2. Your idea must be your own original work and free from copyrights.

3. Submissions must not infringe any third party’s rights, including images, trademarks and trade names.

4. Submissions should have an explanation of how the time is read, similar to other posts on the blog.

5. The maximum file size for submissions is 5mb. Please ensure your images are at least 700 pixels wide.

6. Please zip your images into one folder when submitting.

7. Please limit design descriptions to 120 words.

There’s no deadline there so we take it it’s an ongoing effort, and there are already some crazy concepts there on the blog.

Like for instance this one by 14 year old Tomek, from Poland:

Or this one from David Brophy in the UK:

Try to figure out how they work yourself, but likely if you can’t, get to the blog where they explain how to read each of the designs submitted.

It’s also a trend lately of crowdsourcing moving into product design, like Quirky for example.

So if you have a knack for watch design, bring over your best, craziest ones and submit them to Tokyoflash. We’ll see you there!