The Analog of Digital

By Alexander Rose @zander

May 26, 02009

Swedish design group Humans Since 1982 created this digital readout called The Clock Clock made of 24 analog clocks. Notice the time reads 09:25 digitally above. You can go to their website to see an animation of the clocks in action as well as download the font they create. Thanks to Creobic for this link where you can find other analog digital clocks.

Art The Clock of the Long Now

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