CROZ-D.I.Y Digital Camera is an elegant and interactive product collaboratively made by Hylé Design Macau and Taiwan camera brand PaperShoot in 2016. CROZ-D.I.Y Digital Camera showcases the essence of traditional photography and modern inspiration, significant features cover interactive DIY process, simplification and capturing fun. Users can choose preferred outlook combination and enjoy the interactive process of building up their own shooting device. CROZ-D.I.Y Digital Camera simplified puzzling buttons into a 3 in1 (on/off/shoot) button and a switch for photo effects selection, besides thoughtful craftsmanship, all these features devote to bring users back to the very beginning of camera invention: recording and enjoying life.

The most challenging part to create CROZ-D.I.Y Digital Camera is to break through the limitation and redefining the essence of capturing. High-techs take people into a fast-paced life, it is easy to take a photo and delete it right away; unintentionally we are ‘trapped’ inside of screen and have ignored all the details hidden behind living and nature. Thus, we are eager to create a unique product to lead users back to stage they can observe and rediscover the aesthetics together with the little details around them; the product is unique that users can decide every part according to preferences and match their daily look, serving as a desired item to wear on. CROZ is produced with natural and environmental friendly materials covering wood, leather and brass, as time goes by the changes on color and texture will be reflected on surfaces, subtly showing users their interaction with the products after period of time in use.

‘Design makes no wasted’ is the merit of Hylé Design Macau, we always believe every existence in the world is with value, even it is disused. By adhering this philosophy we prioritize environmental friendly strategies in products development, we reuse the materials from wastes generated from manufacturing factories and give them new life through design, resulting to cut down the cost of new materials order, to economize the cost of manufacturing and eventually create extra benefits for both manufacturers and customers. We believe our approach can appeal to more designers and public by redefining ‘wasted resources’, which is considered potential and valuable on both economy and innovation aspects.