A pocketful of everyday wonder.
A handheld colour picker that turns everyday discoveries into memories you can collect, share, and wear.
The world hasn’t lost its colour.
We’ve stopped noticing it.
Forage for your colours. CACHE translates Hermès’ world of colour and craft into a daily ritual: notice a hue, save its story, and carry it with you.
Find a colour worth keeping.
Capture colours from the things you encounter—leaves underfoot, a spoonful of jam, a building on your walk. A small act of noticing becomes something you can keep.
Touchscreen LCD
Wrapped body
Capture control
A window onto colour.
Camera, RGB sensor, distance sensor, and mini-LED light.
A deliberate touch.
Laser-etched detail on the capture button.
A familiar material language.
A debossed Hermès mark on the leather body.
Made to go with you.
A push-button quick release lets the device move between interchangeable accessories.
A colour for every point of view.
Orange, Gold, Menthe, and Céleste give the object four distinct expressions.
A further connection to Hermès colour +
The team’s final Q&A proposed extending the global colour dictionary with Hermès palette references: a captured hue could lead to a related house colour and the story behind it. This remains an extension of the concept.
Finding a physical home
for a fleeting colour.
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A language to build on
Simple geometry, layered forms, equestrian hardware, and the warmth of leather.
Explore studies & notes8 more +
The brief was framed around curious, fashion-conscious people and a second audience of professional creators. “Forage for your colours” connected discovery, memory, culture, and personal expression; the creative-tool direction explored bringing those colours back into making.
From tool to personal object
A broad search through instruments, charms, and wearable objects before refining the circular display and softened body.
Explore studies & notes17 more +
The early studies compared linear colour-picking tools with a wearable display. Circular and rounded-square cores were explored through worn, carried, and kept scenarios. Subsequent variations examined silhouette, leather placement, controls, and the relationship between the screen and its frame.
Making the gesture feel natural
Everyday objects helped us act out the journey. The interface studies connected a captured colour to its photograph, name, and collection.
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The capture requirements included distant, curved, moving, and untouchable subjects. Studies explored a colour sensor and camera responding to distance, plus visual, sound, and haptic feedback. Press, squeeze, rotate, tap, and scroll were compared as possible inputs; these boards document exploration, rather than validated product behaviour.
Resolving the details
Attachment, assembly, charging, and material studies bring the object into everyday life.
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Connector and sensor arrangements were compared alongside exploded assembly and charging concepts. Heritage, Asphalt, and artist-collaboration directions explored different material characters. Longevity, repairability, and simpler manufacturing were design intentions guiding the work.
Jeff Yap
Industrial design
Claire Li
Interaction design / UI & UX
Kyoko Takahashi
Graphic design / Illustration / UX