u/rocol0001

***Photos are from other community and not taken by me

New mido ocean star 39 in single blue color is being released in Korea since last saturday. I also have visited the boutique(but didn't took a picture), and kinda have a mixed feelings on them. The color of this new model is not like what they show on official website. On the website image, it's something between blue and teal. Subtle green tone goes well with the matte texture. In real life, the color is more of a raw blue. The hue is greener than the blue part of blue-black ocean star 39, but it's not as green as ocean star tribute. Well, this model does look good. It'll make a nice summer watch. It's just not what I expected when I saw the official image. I'm looking for Certina 40.5mm models now.

Disclaimer: The designs here are intended for creative exploration, and personal collection only. I hold no rights to the original commercial brands, and these items are not for sale, production, or commercial exploitation in any form.

Since 2024, one of my hobby is to design some custom keycaps based on preexisting designs. The colorways are kinda limited since the custom printing shop I've been using does not support full face printing but only top side printing. Here are some of designs I've came up with.

1. Leica inspired keycap This one is based on Leica M9-P white limited model with noctillux lens. since Leica's original font was not open for purchase, similar free font namely f5.6 was used for alphabets. punctuations and numbers were drawn from scratch. the Leica logo at Esc position is simply a metal sticker on a blank keycap.

2. Blue bottle inspired keycap Since Leica has red as a point color, trying something with blue came up to my mind. As of my knowledge, Blue bottle coffee uses Halis Grotesque as base font, and Anglecia Pro for sub text in their packages. Texts in modifiers - Boil, weigh, grind, pour, elapse - and icons in the rightmost column - bean, water, temp, time - are inspired from the Blue bottle's blog postings.

3. Snow Peak inspired keycap I've tried using some shades of grey in this one. I first drew some camping gears on post-its, and transferred them to vector in Illustrator. My personal favorite is arrangement: Tent placed under Tarp, and Chair placed below mountain. Garamond was used as a main font, and Noto Sans Runic was selected as a subfont. Runic sublegend was chosen since it has a 'field' feeli g that goes well with camping, and geometric shape seemd to go well with the snowflake logo.

4. Doutor inspired keycap Doutor is a coffee franchise in Japan. I was thinking of adding Japanese sublegend in this one, but I ended up with keeping it neat instead. FF Din was used for alphabet and numbers. Modifier icons were made with illustrator in matching stroke thickness. Cafe au lait in enter key and コーヒー飲料(coffee beverage) in caps lock key are inspired from bottle of Doutor RTD coffee.

These are some I wanted to share. Thank you for reading!

A modification of discontinued gel pen. Pen nib was removed from the plastic holder, then replaced with mechanical pencil nib. the original pen tube and mechanism extracted from p205 copy are fixed with friction. black ink-ish thing is black pp tube inserted to imitate ink. it's actually hollow thus new lead could be fed from back. End caps are bicycle part - brake line tube cover - cut in proper length. I first came up with this design in around 2005 - mechanical pencil modification was a boom back then in Korea I found this recently and tried rebuilding with some more tools and materials. not the best pencil to write with, but it's fun to build with.