Origin: The series

Origin is the name we give to the point or the place where something begins, arises, or is derived. The primal source from which all subsequent forms flow. The first articulation of an idea into matter — a moment so powerful that it becomes a gravitational centre, forever pulling future expressions into its orbit.

We have long noticed how certain design elements — folds, wraps, panels, silhouettes — echo across multiple pieces in our works, linking them in a subtle visual dialogue.

Sometimes this arises from conscious reference to past archives; other times it emerges mysteriously, as if our hands remember something older than thought. In either case, these recurrences give our body of work an undeniable cohesiveness.

The true essence of origin lies in its role as an elemental reference point, the first articulation of an idea so intrinsically aligned with our inner geometry that it becomes a silent compass for everything that follows.

It is an imprint that quietly insists upon itself across time.

In design, this means there exists an original configuration — a fold, a silhouette, a tension of lines, that so perfectly resonates with our sensibilities that we return to it again and again and again, almost involuntarily.

It is as though our creative psyche, once it has touched this essential form or element, carries its memory like a subtle charge, compelling us to revisit and reconfigure it, to see what new expressions it might yield. This cyclical devotion reveals something deeply philosophical about the nature of making: that design is a dialogue across time with ourselves. It is recursive, layered and insistently referential.

Philosophically, it signals toward the question of identity itself. Who are we, if not the sum of what we return to? Our repetitions reveal our most intimate preoccupations. They expose the patterns through which we make sense of the world.

To trace the same line over and over is to insist on who we are, a statement in a lifelong arguement about meaning, beauty, necessity. It is a way of saying: this is what compels me, this is what i am here to understand. This insistence on continuity is profoundly subversive. It says that we do not discard our past selves. We fold and mould them into the present. We build futures that are deeply rooted in what came before. We tell a long, unbroken story — one that can be read backward and forward, always leading back to the same origin.

Thus, the connectedness across our work is also the connectedness within ourselves.

Origin is not just where we began — it is where we continually return to, each iteration is an unending dialogue with the first form that made us feel profoundly seen.

This is what Origin: the series seeks to illuminate: our insistence — conscious or unconscious, on weaving a lineage through our work. The instinctual drive to keep returning to the first source, to keep rephrasing it, to keep telling the same design story again and again but with different inflections so it becomes seeds around which new works crystallise.

In doing so, we build a universe of objects that are not isolated events but interconnected iterations binding the maker’s entire body of work into a living, evolving resonance of forms.

This commitment to continuity and repetition is a spiral that returns again and again to its centre. Origin will chart this spiral. It will explore how each design element, once born, becomes an axis around which new forms organise themselves. It’ll trace the first emergence of a particular design element — the fold, the wrap sole, the silhouette — that once sprung into existence from intuition, accidents, constraints, experiments, or even necessity. From there, we follow its proliferations: how it found new expression, new context, or subtle transformation across subsequent works. In doing so, we uncover a design language that honours the original impulse while also extending it, questioning it, and evolving it.

If you have never paused to consider this — to see the vast relational field tying each piece of our work to the next — we hope Origin reveals the intensity of this creative recursion: how we, as designers, draw from a well that is not only personal but archetypal. How our work is bound by an invisible geometry that begins with a single, luminous point: the origin.

Over the coming months, this Origin series will unfold as a kind of meditative map. Each series will chart one design element across time, across collections, across ideas. We will consider not only how it looks but why it recurs — what it satisfies in us, what question it continues to probe, what personal or philosophical gravity keeps drawing us back.