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【IC】GMK Birch - GB live until March 1st, 2021

类型: IC
作者: break
发布时间: 2020-07-01 23:09:19
更新时间: 2021-02-22 10:36:51
原链接: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=107246.0



Group Buy: February 1st to March 1st, 2021
Please visit the GMK Birch Group Buy thread for more details on pre-ordering GMK Birch.
Inspiration
My wife and I are expanding our home for our first child, and that means some interior design! The E N D G A M E for my home office would come from Knoll - particularly the classic work produced by Finnish designer Eero Saarinen for Knoll during the 1940s and 1950s.

The Lasurite blue used in this set reflects my favorite colorway for Saarinen’s womb chair. Keyboard collectors will undoubtedly see inspiration from other classic sources: original Cherry keysets and their descendents, like GMK 9009, as well as inviting modern sets like GMK Cafe, Solarized and GMK Firefly.

Enjoy the creamy alphas and woody modifiers legended with blue-green for a warm, clean interpretation of OG Cherry sets. Add the Lasurite blue accents for some subtle character, similar to GMK Blue Alert. These RAL reference pictures may help visualize the set’s colors in full daylight.
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Kits
GMK Birch has four kits for now: a base kit with numpad and basic ISO coverage, novelties inspired by Saarinen’s work, a spacebar kit, and basic coverage for 40% layouts.
Base Kit

Spacebars

Novelties
These novelties reference some classic interior pieces from the 1940s and 1950s, like the womb chair, the tulip chair and table, the Eames lounge chair, and a healthy amount of cocktail glassware.

Forties
This is an extremely light 40s kit, offered to help a few friends use Birch on their 40s.

RAMA
This is Rama Works’s collaborative aluminum artisan for GMK Birch. It has two infill layers and two tiers. You can see those tiers in the isometric view. The birch-colored drink tier is the lowest tier, while the rocks glass outline sits above it. Both are engraved into the keycap, which is anodized to lazurite blue.
Thank you to Sour for the inspiration, through the incredible Rama for GMK Pono.

Renders
Iron180 by Smith + Rune
With warm interior lighting.


Dawn, by crykn / Finite Design



Fjell by Mechanisk

KFE CE by bisoromi + beamingrobot



Anubis, by nerdy
Join Nerdy’s server for more details.


J-02, by Jae




Collaborations
Artisans
Some of you have heard me claim that I “quit” artisans. You never really quit artisans, though, am I right? So I’m excited that some of my favorite artisans have agreed to collaborate on this set:
**Prime Caps
Sodie Caps
Destroyer Caps
TRMK Caps
Latrialum
deagcaps
Bad and Booj Keys
Mastonon Designs
Phage Caps
**
Deskmat and Banderole
I’ll also announce some other nice collaborations soon.
Interested?
If you’d like to see this set on your desk, please fill out this Interest Check Survey.
For dad jokes and some behind-the-scenes news, join my Discord server.
You can also find me on Discord (break/#8888) or Reddit (u/breakbeatzors).
Vendors and GB Date
GMK Birch will open for group buy at these vendors during February 2021.
US: CannonKeys.com
SEA: Monokei.co
EU: MyKeyboard.eu
UK: Prototypist.net
CA: DeskHero.ca
AU: DailyClack.com
CN: zFrontier.com
Special Thanks
My endless gratitude to

  • Walker for renders, kitting discussion and guiding me through my first IC
  • Manzel for additional amazing renders
  • various amazing designers for thoughts and answers to random questions: tom, pwade, crykn, Emir
  • the Florida (Mech)Keys and Keycap Designer communities for all of their support and suggestions
  • my brother, redtens, for graphic design mentorship (endless chair revisions!) and very constructive feedback
  • last but not least: to my wife for endless discussions about furniture, colors, and keycaps, and her constant support for my interest in this kitschy little hobby
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