WALDEN TIME, 2021—2023
At Walden, we thought a lot about time. Not just how to measure it, but how to feel it. In a world built around schedules and notifications, we wanted to design tools that marked time differently. No alarms, no sounds, no screens. Just subtle cues to return to the present. Some were ritual-based, like the candle clock. Others more precise, like The Moment, a six-second breathing timer that rises and falls with gravity, guiding you back to your breath. It's made from stainless steel and engineered with amazingly tight tolerances to create a controlled vacuum of air, allowing each opposing piece to rise and fall at a calculated rate.
THE GONG TIMER
Designed in 2020 with Mike Rito and guided by Miklu Silvanto, the Gong Timer was an answer to the brief from Eddie Cohen to design and develop an analogue meditation timer. To use the device you cock the mallet into position and scoop the sand from the bottom bowl into the hour glass. We custom engineered a scooper so that each scoop was approximately five minutes. Powered by gravity and triggered by the weight of falling sand, the counter weighted mechanisms strikes the gong once all of the sand has fallen into the bottom bowl again. After countless mockups, prototypes, and tests. the product was developed into a final working prototype yet never made it into production.
20 Minute Candle Timer
A silent timer for meditation. A box of bees wax candles engineered to burn for precisely 20 minutes and a brass pedestal to keep them upright. A little room left on the tray for a struck match. Available for purchase here.
