ORÉE WORKS
The Plotter: a brushed-steel pen plotter and microphone on a black basalt plinth
October 2026
AI and creative technology · Object design · Retail experience

The Plotter

A steel instrument that listens to a memory and draws it in ink.

Year
2026
Location
Dubai
Disciplines
AI and creative technology · Object design · Retail experience
Role
Concept, design and technology

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The Plotter from above on black: steel rails around a signed ink drawing, the microphone's oxide ring
From aboveConcept visual

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The brief

Luxury retail keeps asking for moments guests remember and keepsakes they actually keep. Most activations answer with a screen and a code to scan.

We asked a narrower question: what if the keepsake were made for one person, from their own words, in front of them, in under a minute?

A hand in an embroidered black sleeve resting beside the steel microphone
The microphone listensConcept visual
Macro of the ink pen drawing a constellation on cotton paper
The penConcept visual
The engraved steel plate on the plinth: Orée Works
The plateConcept visual

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The idea

A guest leans into a steel microphone and shares a memory, in Arabic or English. The ring at its base glows while it listens.

From those words, the instrument composes a sky, a horizon and the few stars that belong to that story. A pen draws it in ink on cotton paper, line by line, and signs it with the city and the date.

The guest never sees a screen. They watch a pen move, and leave with an original.

The Plotter from the front on black: basalt plinth, steel gantry and microphone
Steel and basaltConcept visual
Gloved hands holding up the finished drawing, signed Dubai
The keepsakeConcept visual

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The outcome

A working web prototype of the experience, and an object designed to tour: one basalt plinth, one flight case, and half a day to install. We can make the metal and stone in a house's own materials and visual language.

The physical build is next. Give it a memory above to see how it behaves.

To draw a memory
60s
Flight case
1
Languages
Arabic · English
A woman in a black silk gown stops in a shaft of daylight in front of a crimson velvet curtain
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