Dawn
Designed by Daniel Colcock, B.F.A. in Design
Dawn is a wooden clock radio designed to replace your phone on the nightstand. It wakes you up with local radio, shows the time and handles alarms, all controlled by a single rotary dial. It doesn’t ask for your attention. It's just a quiet object that does a few things well.
Dawn runs on a micro-controller inside a wooden enclosure. It powers an OLED screen and an FM radio chip, all navigated through a single rotary dial. The interface uses smooth animations to make each interaction feel intentional. It syncs the time automatically over WiFi, so the clock is always accurate.
What’s the first thing you did this morning? You probably picked up your phone. Dawn is designed around the idea that the objects we interact with first and last each day actually matter. What changes when that object is something slow, physical and natural instead of an addicting screen?
