One of my favorite things on my desk is a small ceramic face vessel by . The cup is a character with a tiny nose, mouth, eyes outlined with big red glasses. It brings me joy each time I look at it, which goes to show you the power of creative products.
Hana Ward is the person behind Uno + Ichi, although the brand was originally started by her and her friend Joanna in 2015. (Uno + Ichi means “one plus one,” as uno is Spanish for one and ichi means one in Japanese.) Joanna left Uno + Ichi in February 2018, and Hana began working on it on her own.
“I found that I loved throwing pieces on the wheel first and then altering them by hand afterwards. I would throw the near-perfect form on the wheel, and then play with hitting it with a stick, rolling it on the table, or forming a shape with my hands,” she .
“I loved the unpredictability of it and the individuality each imperfection brought to the piece. This way of working birthed a new meaning of Uno + Ichi for me. Uno + Ichi began to refer to the process and approach I had to making. Uno began to represent the first step in creating form on the wheel—sturdy and precise—and ichi came to represent the undoing of that perfection–unpredictable and flawed.”
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