Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband by Costis

Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband by Costis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award in Eisen in Schmuckdesign Competition Category.

EisenSchmuck· 2026

Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband

by Costis

Client: Pencil Bracelet by Costis

A' Design Award in Eisen Winner in Schmuck Category

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The Design

About Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband

Buchtext: Das Design vereint Ästhetik, Originalität, Kreativität und Plastizität in einem einzigen Stück. Costis liebt es, das skulpturale Element in jedem Objekt hervorzuheben, indem er das Gewöhnliche nimmt und es in die Sphäre des Außergewöhnlichen erhebt. Ihn reizt die Herausforderung, einen einfachen Alltagsgegenstand in ein Kunstwerk zu verwandeln. Dieses Armband bringt die Schönheit eines Bleistifts zur Geltung, der als Objekt zwar bescheiden erscheinen mag, jedoch tatsächlich das eigentliche Medium von Costis' Kreativität ist: Mit seinem Bleistift erschafft er seine Zeichnungen. Das Armband gleitet durch die Hand und rollt so bequem um das Handgelenk.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Eisen

Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Eisen, einer prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für gute Designs, die die beruflichen und industriellen Anforderungen erfüllen, die an gut gestaltete Schöpfungen gestellt werden. Eisen-Gewinner zeigen großes Können, hohe Spezialisierung, fachkundiges Verständnis und die kreative Kapazität ihrer Schöpfer. Von Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband wird erwartet, dass es eine hochgeschätzte, bewunderte und geliebte Schöpfung ist, die praktisch und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Eisen prämierte Design integriert bewährte Branchenverfahren und weist kompetente technische Merkmale in Verbindung mit Know-how und Talent auf. Pencil Collection Primäre Funktion: Armband wird für seine Gründlichkeit geschätzt und ist darauf ausgelegt, Verbesserungen der Lebensqualität zu liefern, die dazu beitragen, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The Pencil Bracelet is a blend of Aesthetics, Originality, Creativity, Plasticity in a piece.
Costis loves to enhance the sculptural element in any object, by taking the ordinary and elevating it into the realm of extraordinary. He is intrigued by the challenge of elevating a simple, everyday item into a piece of art. This bracelet brings out the beauty of a pencil, which as an object may seem trivial, but is actually the mere medium of his creativity: he uses his pencil to create his drawings.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 27mm x Length 175mm x Height 8mm. Diameter 60mm. Weight 64.30 grams
18K White Gold, pave' with 6.64 carats of excellent Diamonds and 0.74 carats Ruby, especially cut to fit the tip pf the pencil-shaped bracelet. At the back of the bracelet, another ruby is set, implying the end of the red graphite.
Tags: pencil bracelet, fine jewelry, high jewelry, unique, ingenious luxury
Production Technology: The idea strikes unexpectedly and is quickly sketched on paper. These rough sketches become detailed artistic drawings. Technical specifics are decided later in the workshop. Designs are then created in Rhino software, where Costis applies his modeling expertise for volume and proportion, the factors that can make or break a jewel. The process continues with resin prototyping, fusion, finishing, hand stone-setting, and rhodium plating.
Design Challenge: The main challenge was to obtain the correct volume of a rolled pencil, so that when worn, it could convey immediately to the actual object. Also, setting the graphite tip, in this case an especially cut ruby, also posed a challenge.
Research: My research evolved around the attempt to study how a pencil can be rolled around the wrist. The objective was to render the bracelet comfortable when worn, to choose the right distance between the two meeting edges, and to recreate all distinguishing characteristics, as the writing tip and the end of the graphite.
Inspiration: Costis loves to observe the world we live in. These
are the forms he re-creates through his jewelry, by enhancing the sculptural element in any object, by taking the ordinary and elevating it into the realm of extraordinary. He is intrigued by the challenge of elevating a simple, everyday item into a piece of art. This bracelet brings out the beauty of a pencil, which as an object may seem trivial, but it is actually the mere medium of his creativity: he uses his pencil to create his drawings.
Project Duration: The project started in Athens in September 2012, and was completed in Valenza, Italy in May 2023, to be ready for the Launch of Costis Jewelry in Neiman Marcus, USA.
Operation Flow: This bracelet offers its bearer the joy of wearing a piece that was inspired and transformed from an ordinary and humble object. It slides through the hand, and embraces it so gently, since the pencil rolls around the wrist very comfortably.
Patents: Trademark Costis by WIPO, Registration number 1 525 576
Registration date March 6, 2020, Konstantinos Chamamtzis
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #2: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #3: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #4: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #5: Photographer, Frangos Ioannis