What wall clocks could look like.

There are analog clocks, mechanical clocks, digital clocks, automatic clocks, cuckoo clocks, church clocks – and there are surprising clock creations. As part of Milan Design Week, the 24 Hours Exhibition showcased 24 crazy and wonderful clocks by various designers that couldn’t be more surprising. The designers were all given the same task by the exhibition’s curators, Canadian designer Jamie Wolfond and Milan-based Studio Simple Flair: to design a wall clock that fits into a square 1.6 ft box.

The online magazine dezeen writes: “Wolfond said the aim was to show the scope for creativity within this particular object. There are all kinds of materials, shapes and mechanisms among the resulting clocks, revealing the different design methodologies of each contributor.”