Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş by Alexis Zapata is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Gümüş Mükafatı in İncəsənət və Dəftərxana Ləvazimatları Dizaynı Competition Category.
Gümüşİncəsənət Ləvazimatları· 2025
Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş
Client: Lumin
A' Design Award Gümüş Mükafatı Winner in İncəsənət Ləvazimatları Category
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The Design
About Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş
Lumin 100 faiz alüminiumdan hazırlanmış dizayndır. Mexanizm olmadan, qrafitin tutulması üçün materialın elastikliyindən istifadə edilir. Müxtəlif rəqəmsal idarəetmə ilə emal prosesləri vasitəsilə istehsal olunur və hər birində əl ilə sonlandırma aparılır. Həkk olunmuş seriya nömrəsi ilə identifikasiya olunan məhsul, orijinallığını təsdiq edən qablaşdırma ilə təqdim olunur. Dizayner Lumin-də boşluğun emosiyasını təmsil etmək istəyib. Hər bir insanın daxilində yaşayan parıltının bir parçası - mükəmməl deyil, lakin autentik. Bu şəkildə Lumin daxilə baxışa və şəxsi düşüncəyə dəvət edir.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Gümüş Mükafatı
Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş A' Design Award Gümüş Mükafatının qalibidir; bu, ən yüksək səviyyəli, gözəl və təsirli dizaynlara verilən fövqəladə dərəcədə nüfuzlu tanınmadır. Gümüş qaliblər dizaynerlərinin görkəmli təcrübəsini, istedadını və zəkasını nümayiş etdirən son dərəcə parlaq və çox yaradıcı işlərdir. Gözlənilir ki, Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş diqqətəlayiq dərəcədə peşəkar və dərin yenilikçi, gözəl bir nümunə olacaq. A' Design Award Gümüş Mükafatını qazanmış bu dizayn sənətin, elmin, dizaynın və texnologiyanın sərhədlərini genişləndirən, yüksək dərəcədə qeyd olunmağa layiq, heyran olunan ixtiradır. Lumin Mexaniki Karandaş istəkləri oyadan, müsbət duyğular bəxş edən, heyrət və təəccüb doğuran, geniş şəkildə həsəd aparılan yaradıcılıq nümunəsidir.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Lumin represents an emotion, of emptiness, to give rise to the new. A fragment of light, not perfect but authentic, that shines one's own brilliance. Materialize the intangible.
In its packaging, emptiness is symbolized. Where, for the light to find us, we must find that breaking point.
The pencil, what must always shine, protect itself, defend...Education.
"Alumina,
light that propagates through the emptiness.
Lumin, born from absence." - Dimensions & Packaging
- Mechanical pencil, material aluminum alloy 2011, weight 90 grams, dimensions 100 mm x 19 mm, between the faces of the hexagon
Packaging material 300 gr illustration, printing full color, finish matte polypropylene on both sides, die cut digital, finish 2 double sided, dimensions 140 mm x40 mm x 40 mm - Tags
- emotion, intangible, emptyness, authentic, light, absence, aluminum, alumina
- Production Technology
- Lumin is an exclusive design, made 100 percent from aluminum. Stripped of any mechanism, it uses the elasticity of the material to hold the graphite. It is produced using different numerical control machining processes, with a manual finish in each of them. Identified with its engraved serial number and accompanied by the packaging that authenticates it.
- Design Challenge
- From 2017 to 2022, I was a professor at a university in the model and prototype workshop. After the pandemic, classes were taught online, so the workshop became unnecessary. This made me think about how education changed, and today I think the pencil was an act of protest to defend it. It wasn't easy to find a CNC lathe operator willing to make only 100 units at first; they usually order 1,000 units. Costs also increased due to devaluation in my country. Even the cost of the packaging was high, given the small quantity, so I had to do it using digital offset.
I made virtually no profit, nor was I interested in making any. It was a process through which I was able to understand the anguish I carried inside, and by materializing it, I was able to face it and thus let it go. - Research
- The initial idea was to create a mechanical pencil using discarded aluminum. Information was collected on different mechanical pencils and their possible mechanisms. At that time, as a teacher in a model and prototype workshop, I had access to lathes where the first six prototypes were created. They were so popular that I began researching how to mass-produce them, since making them individually is time-consuming. Today, it has become a coveted object for designers, architects, and artists. I would like to make a more democratic product, making it accessible to everyone, but production costs are high for the quantities I can make.
- Inspiration
- It was an exploration of personal introspection of my emotions.
Lumin was the key to a new stage. It was my breaking point, to change my reality. - Project Duration
- At the end of 2020, 6 functional prototypes were made and the pre series was launched in July 2023.
It participated in Buenos Aires, Argentina in INNOVAR 2023 with the ID 23902 and Sello Buen Diseño 2025 with the ID 5834. - Operation Flow
- Release the lead from the packaging by pushing the tip of the mechanical pencil inward from one side to eject it from the other side and pulling to remove it. Do not open, disassemble, or break the packaging.
The lead is 5,5 mm and is adjusted when released, vertically with the tip pointing down, always opening slightly to the sides. Hold the lead with both hands on a horizontal surface to prevent the lead from falling out.
If it has been held for a long time, you may need to open it and simultaneously press the lead on a horizontal surface to release it from its internal grip. The lead should fall freely when the clip is opened.
Reload from the rear vortex by inserting a 5,5 mm lead, positioning it vertically with the tip pointing down, fitting the lead into the front hole, and opening it slightly to the sides again to adjust the length.
The length of the graphite exposed is adjusted using the same procedure. Place the clamp against a horizontal surface and adjust it to the desired length.
-The opening is minimal. While the material holds the graphite, it is not very elastic. If the graphite is moved without opening it, it will wear down and the clamp will no longer work. - Patents
- -Patented. Patent No 103.171. Alexis Zapata. 2022. Argentina.
-Trademark belong to Alexis Zapata, 2024, registration number 3.504.852.
Intellectual Property Institute of the Argentine Republic
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/inpi - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #2: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #3: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #4: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #5: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
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