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Project: Stitch-less Palm Wallet

Stitch-less Palm Wallet

Wallets don’t last and aren’t functional. There’s such a limited amount of space in a wallet. At the very most, you can carry a few bills and a couple cards. Where’s the room for loose change? Where’s the space for your keys? I’ve owned dozens of wallets in my lifetime. I’ve never had one that carries everything I need. Every couple of years like clockwork, I’ve had to get a new one. It’s painful. Your hands interact with your wallet every single day. You hold a wallet more than any other item you own. Your hands build a memory, they instinctually know every fold and every bend of the wallet. The heat of your pocket, the oils in your palm, they all patina the wallet. It creases, it molds, and it ages with us. But every couple of years, the stitching gives out. And then, you move on, to another wallet, and another. Even the best wallet I’ve had, can’t carry everything I hold in my pocket in a long lasting design. In Project Palm Wallet: I tackled these issues head on.

A wallet ends up everywhere. It goes in a bag, in your pocket or on the table. Oftentimes, its only interaction is with your hand. In this project, I wanted to create something that would hold everything I carry in a design that felt good in your hands. I took wet clay and, formed it into the most comfortable shape I could hold. This would be the outline for the Palm Wallet.

In my pockets, I carry my wallet, my keys, loose change and other small items. I wrapped everything I carried together in leather and used the clay outline as boundaries for a new design. I needed to bend and fold leather in a way that wouldn’t require any stitches.

Hundreds of proto types later, I had the “Palm Wallet”. As a designer, you reach a point in the process where you can’t make any further changes, because the final design is so complexly interlaced that any changes would alter the structural integrity of the final piece. Every fold, curve and rivet in the Palm Wallet serves a higher purpose. There is a complex symphony at play, each part of the design enhances and strengthens each other into a final complete piece. The Palm Wallet has become one of our flag ship products and the start of a series of stitch less wallets we designed. It’s stitch less, functional, and comfortable. Everything you carry in your pockets fits into the palm of your hand.

Stitch-less Palm Wallet