Aroundsquare’s Deadeyes are part skill toy, part worry stone, part mind control device. Roll them between your fingers, or press use your thumb into the smooth contour and breath deep to dissolve the stresses of daily life. Designed to be handled and manipulated. They are precisely crafted, with an ergonomic indent on either side that is perfect for thumbs of any size. But as you’d expect from AO2, there’s more to it than that. The concave shape and resulting ridge around the perimeter make the Deadeyes perfect for contact-style manipulation. With practice, they can be made to roll fluidly between the fingers, or back and forth over the thumbs, and isolations can be performed where the coins appear to be floating around the fingertips.
The Glow POM Deadeyes have a lightly polished surface, which preserves a bit of the machine finished texture, while smoothing out transition lines from different machine steps. The result is a lovely texture which is surprisingly different from our original delrin versions.
Brand Aroundsquare Type Skill toy Size 37mm Weight 6.6g
In their own words aroundsquare (ao2) is guided by the goals of sustainability, democratisation, and social justice. while our work is eclectic, all of it is underpinned by the idea of leveraging creativity and learning for the greater good. in practice, the bulk of our activities are concentrated in the areas of transformative education, monitoring and evaluation, and the design of toys and other materials that support the development of human potential. ao2 is a social enterprise.
unlike regular businesses which only seek profit, ao2 uses a model that generates profit in addition to furthering social, environmental, and human development goals. aroundsquare is proud to be a part of the new economy.