OIMU

OIMU is a Seoul-based design studio, whose projects reinterpret the forgotten cultural values and traditions of Korea. Their natural incense sticks are handmade with wood flour, elm-barks, corn starches, pine resinandfragranceoil.Througha labour-intensiveprocessharnessing traditional Korean techniques, skilled craftsman knead the raw natural materials and extract the dough elaborately by hand before air drying it inthewind andagingoverseveralmonths.Theincenseisthenpack- aged in a hot-stamped gold-foiled box made using 100% green energy from recycled paper containing 15% non-wood pulp (from organic by-products such as citrus, corn, olives, almonds). Let the sensuality and ritualism of OIMU transport you to a slower time.