Design and material properties learned from nature

Have you ever come across a shape in nature that makes you want to use it in your design?

In addition to shape, there are also designs that learn from the "physical properties" of the material, such as flexibility, durability, and resilience.

When designing a slim wallet, considering how leather or canvas will bend and overlap is a dialogue with the laws of physics. How can we make the most of the strong yet supple properties of goat leather? By deeply understanding the properties of these materials and incorporating them into the structure, such as by using polypropylene, which has a similar flexibility to bamboo, for the coin divider, we can create a design that is comfortable in the human hand, durable even with long-term use, and strong.

When it comes to design, we tend to focus solely on the appearance, but the use of materials and physical properties behind the scenes is also useful in many ways.

Products using these:

Tynd small slim wallet → Moderate flexibility and stiffness with bending open coin pocket
https://solahanpu.com/products/tynd-cv

Tenuis 3rd Generation:
→ Elastic twin card slots, moderately elastic coin divider
https://solahanpu.com/products/tenuis-third

Tenuis 4th Generation:
→Stretchable twin card slots, moderately flexible twin coin pocket
https://solahanpu.com/products/tenuis-fourth

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