Hasta La Ideas

While I’ll probably spend Valentine’s Day in my traditional way–doing shots at some bar with other singletons who missed the boat–some of you will be exchanging boxes of chocolates and maybe even rings.

Two neat ring concepts spotted on cool hunting:

Designer Yoon Jung Yun’s Inner Message Ring is meant to leave an impression, literally.

A few years ago a Korean singer wrote a song about the sunburn mark that he found on his finger after he broke up with his girlfriend and removed a ring he had been wearing for a long time. This is the story that inspired Jungyun Yoon to make ‘Inner message’, a ring with hidden letters on the inside. Inner message is a ring that leaves an impression on the finger.

Imagine that your lover giving you a ring that on the surface seems plain, but later when you take the ring off; it says, “Marry me.” Or imagine that even though you take off the ring to clean your hands you are still wearing an impression of the words, ‘always’.

On the other hand (no pun intended), the Two of a Kind Ring…

…is a minimalist piece of jewelry that still packs a sweetly sentimental punch. Designed by Dutch designer Frederik Roije and produced by Droog, “in breaking the ring an engagement with each other will exist.” We can’t think of a more elegant interpretation of a ring’s symbolism, though we imagine this one’s more suited to wearing on a chain than on a finger due to its size and fragility.

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