A couple of days ago, PCGamesN featured one of our builds: the Sakura V2.
The Sakura V2 was a client project, a follow-up to the original Sakura, which was the first machine that really put the flower idea to work for us. This one asked for more, so we built it around a terrarium-style case and ran the blossoms all the way through it, let the lighting move from a soft pink into purple, and placed every flower so it did two things at once, carrying the look while quietly hiding the wiring underneath. For PCGamesN, an outlet that's been covering custom builds for over twenty years, to go as far as calling it maybe the prettiest PC they'd seen means more to us than it probably should.
We started Optimist for the people who never saw themselves in the clean, all-white look that modern tech settled on, and who wanted a machine that actually reflected them. The flowers were always the clearest version of that idea. Seeing a build like this one recognized, and seeing the writers half-joke that they might start putting flowers in everything from now on, tells us the idea travels further than our own workshop.
So thank you to PCGamesN for the feature, and to the client who trusted us to take Sakura somewhere new. This is still early days for us, and the flower idea is one we plan to keep chasing for a long time.
