One Kind Gifts · Perth
Memories you can feel
Made to be held, not only looked at.
One Kind Gifts is one person, one small studio in Perth, and a short row of machines. Everything sold here is made in that room, to order, usually in the evening.
Why texture
Almost every personalised gift you can buy is flat. A name engraved into a surface, or a photograph printed onto one. It looks right in a listing photograph and then it sits in a drawer.
We build the surface up instead of cutting into it. Ink is laid down in passes until the pattern stands above the material and you can trace it with a fingertip. A wreath has depth. Lettering has an edge you can catch. A photograph has relief where the light falls.
That is the whole idea, and it is the reason these cost more than a flat engraved version of the same thing. You are meant to pick it up.
How a piece is made
- The artwork is prepared for your names, dates or photograph
- The shape is cut and the detail engraved
- Every edge is cleaned by hand, because ink will not hold onto a dirty cut
- The texture is printed in passes until the relief is deep enough
- The piece is checked, and anything that is not right is remade rather than sent
- It is packed to arrive as a gift, not as a parcel
What we will not do
- No artificial intelligence generated artwork. Every design is bought with a licence or drawn for the piece
- No stock held in bulk and shipped on. If it is sold here, it was made here
- No piece sent out that one of us would not keep
Who makes it
Mila, in Perth, Western Australia. Small enough that if something is wrong you are talking to the person who made it, and that person will remake it.
This began as an idea I kept coming back to, that the gifts worth giving are the ones people reach for again years later. Most personalised gifts are not like that. They photograph well and then they go in a drawer. I wanted to make the other kind, so I bought the machines, found a small room in Perth, and started.
One Kind Gifts · ABN 88 641 253 255 · Perth, Western Australia