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 Saarinens 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 sets colors in full
daylight.
More
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 Im 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
Ill also announce some other nice
collaborations soon.
Interested?
If youd 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