{"id":546113,"date":"2026-03-26T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:07:18","slug":"industrial-designer-mike-jacobs-slick-playful-chess-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546113\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Designer Mike Jacobs&#8217; Slick, Playful Chess Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p id=\"a7470a_3352\" data-ic-marker=\"a71015_5703\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOw0FEVgYmP\/?img_index=1\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tempo<\/a> chess clock is by L.A.-based industrial designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikejacobsdesign\/\" style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 1.1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Jacobs.<\/a> It channels the spirit of both vintage Braun and modern-day Teenage Engineering.<\/p>\n<p id=\"be4598_5268\" data-ic-marker=\"ce9d46_3568\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1819725_81_142993_EFLyLVoI7.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p id=\"9f1027_2007\" data-ic-marker=\"1c7ebb_2237\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1819724_81_142993_EFLyLVoI7.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"c5838c_2612\" data-ic-marker=\"df63e_3449\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1819726_81_142993_27NBPYO8R.jpg\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p id=\"ed3bb5_5134\" data-ic-marker=\"86ceea_3300\">It&#8217;s rare to see an object that&#8217;s both slick and playful, but Jacobs pulls it off. The seesaw-style top is a nice alternative to the typical pair of whack-a-mole buttons. The artful yellow reveal provides a subtle reinforcement of the top&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7b3908_1222\" data-ic-marker=\"b8a6bc_4586\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-image-width=\"880\" data-image-height=\"880\" data-image-id=\"1819727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1819727_81_142993_boRcYfYk7.jpg\" style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"3213ec_2843\" data-ic-marker=\"f2de2f_1608\">This is just a concept, done as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/renderweekly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Render Weekly<\/a> challenge. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; This Tempo chess clock is by L.A.-based industrial designer Mike Jacobs. It channels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-546113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}