Close
The Motif Enter Artisan, a green ribbed keycap with a pink almond-shaped eye set into its top, on a bright yellow background

Gallery · OhType · 2025

Motif Artisan

At a glance

The idea Turn the most-pressed key on the board into a statement piece that's as much about form and touch as it is about typing.

materials layered together: aluminium, brass and polycarbonate
3
design studios: Oh Type, MVKB and Akuko Labs
3
preorder at NovelKeys and regional vendors, alongside GMK CYL Motif; sold out, shipping to come
Feb 2025

Designer · Sold out

The Enter key reimagined as a small sculpture: a ribbed, wave-like body with a single eye, made to sit at the heart of the GMK CYL Motif set.

Client
OhType
Role
Designer
Year
2025
Made by
Salvun
Status
Sold out

Mind's Eye

Designed by Oh Type with MVKB and Akuko Labs, and crafted by Salvun, the Motif Enter Artisan reimagines the Enter key as a sculptural, tactile object. Its ribbed, wave-like body plays with form and materiality, built from a mix of aluminium, brass and polycarbonate. The layered construction adds depth you can see and feel, so it works as a key and as a bold statement piece that sits naturally within the Motif aesthetic.

This one was a long-anticipated meeting of the minds: the chance to collaborate with designers I admire produced an artisan that pushes what's possible, and ended up fun, bold and genuinely unique.

The sketch

It started as a quick pen sketch on dot-grid paper: the Enter key from above, from the front, at three-quarters and from the side, with a single almond-shaped eye set into its top. It's what I gave Tim Van Damme (Max Voltar) to get him started.

Pen sketch on yellow dot-grid paper of an Enter keycap with a single eye: a top view, a front view, a three-quarter view and a side view

  • The Motif Enter Artisan from the front, its green ribbed body and pink eye on an orange background
  • The artisan tilted at an angle on a pink background, showing the wave-like ribs along its sides
  • The artisan from directly above on a cream background, the eye centred between two ribbed edges
  • The artisan in profile on a blue background, showing its low sculpted silhouette
  • The artisan end-on on a green background
  • The underside of the artisan on a red background, showing its three stem mounts

The CAD model

Salvun, who produced the artisan, then modeled it in CAD, turning the sketch into the ribbed, wave-like body with the almond eye and its clear centre set into the top.

Salvun’s CAD model

Salvun's CAD model of the Enter artisan from two angles: low from the side, and from above at three-quarters. A grey keycap body with wave-like ribs along its top edges wraps a pink almond-shaped eye, with a clear domed centre of layered rings set into it

On the board

The artisan was made to sit with GMK CYL Motif, the keycap set it launched alongside, where its pink eye and green ribs pick up the set's colourful, hand-drawn legends.

A pink keyboard fitted with the GMK CYL Motif set, the Enter artisan in its place among cream, black and colourful keys

Looking down a row of Motif keys towards the artisan, shot with a shallow depth of field

Close-up of the artisan's eye among speckled black keys and a blue keycap with a coral flower legend

The artisan at an angle among Motif keys with arrow and flower legends

The artisan from a low angle, framed by a coral flower keycap and a yellow arrow key

Front-on close-up of the artisan beside PgUp and PgDn keys

The artisan in the corner of a pink keyboard, surrounded by Motif's novelty keycaps

Credits

  • Design: Oh Type, MVKB (Tim Van Damme, @maxvoltar) and Akuko Labs (@akukolabs)
  • Production: Salvun (@salvun)
  • Renders: MVKB (@mvkbcom)
  • Available through NovelKeys and regional vendors