Last Stand Krajonlongigilo by Juan Ospina

Last Stand Krajonlongigilo by Juan Ospina is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Fera A' Design Award in Dezajno de 3D-Presitaj Formoj kaj Produktoj Competition Category.

Fero3D-Presado· 2023

Last Stand Krajonlongigilo

by Juan Ospina

Client: Ospina Umbreit Design

Fera A' Design Award Winner in 3D-Presado Category

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The Design

About Last Stand Krajonlongigilo

La Lasta Rezisto estas krajonlongigilo dizajnita por daŭrigi la uzadon de mallongaj krajonoj. La korpo estas 3D-printita el rezino kaj mezuras 15 milimetrojn en diametro kaj 150 milimetrojn en alto. Movebla centra peco, maŝinlaborita el alumina alojo per kvinaksa maŝino, ebligas repoziciigi la krajonon post ĉiu akrigo. Ĉapo tenas la krajonon en loko, kaj la malantaŭa pinto povas esti uzata por metiaĵa laboro. La korpo estas printita en du partoj, la metala peco estas enmetita, kaj ambaŭ partoj estas kunigitaj per la sama rezino. La celo estas malpliigi krajonan malŝparon.

The Recognition

About the Fera A' Design Award

Last Stand Krajonlongigilo estas gajninto de la Fera A' Design Award, prestiĝa rekono donata al bonaj dezajnoj, kiuj plenumas la profesiajn kaj industriajn postulojn atendatajn de bone dezajnitaj kreaĵoj. La Feraj gajnintoj montras grandan lertecon, altan specialiĝon, spertan komprenon kaj kreivan kapablon de siaj kreintoj. Oni atendas, ke Last Stand Krajonlongigilo estu tre estimata, admirata kaj ŝatata kreaĵo, kiu estas praktika kaj nova. Ĉi tiu dezajno gajninta la Feran A' Design Award integras plej bonajn industriajn praktikojn kaj havas kompetentajn teknikajn karakterizojn ligitajn kun scipovo kaj talento. Last Stand Krajonlongigilo estas respektata pro sia zorgemo kaj estas dezajnita por provizi plibonigojn de la vivokvalito, kiuj helpas fari la mondon pli bona loko.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This design is made on 3 phases to be achieved; a cnc dynamic center piece to help re position the pencil every time a sharpener is used to re locate the usable part, same time as playing while being creative which helps most of creative designers to think. this piece is trapped inside so in the one piece body needs to be printed in 2 parts, then the cnc body is inserted and the 2 parts are fused with hand applied resin. the aesthetics influenced by the how was it made rule consumer brains
Dimensions & Packaging: 15mm overall diameter, 150mm height
Tags: resin, pencil, popular, preppy, dynamic, elegant
Production Technology: T metal moving center piece is made out of 5 axis cnc machined aluminum alloy, the best part is due to being so small the cost is really worth it. the rest is resin 3d printed on either dlp or sla printer and the final stage is fusing both body parts with the same resin used for printing. The product soul is the most common artifact on existance for designers; a pencil reaching it's last usefull days. It's a perfect match, low cost, short term production, premium aesthetics and most important, reachable to all, almost everyone has a dying pencil
Design Challenge: The hardest part was to find a cheap way to achieve a locked in centerpiece on a resin 3d printed body, its imposible to hold it in place while being printed and due to the centerpiece aesthetics is imposible to insert it in the finished/closed body piece. It couldn't be done by plastic inyection either because of the same problem and body locking to the mold issues. Last and key these kind of gadgets need to be really well balanced between production cost and possible paynment cost. It's totally useless if no one wants to buy it so achieving that perfect cost was the heart to the whole project
Research: Design research for new product development. The main objective was giving value to something that already lost it and selling it as better than new instead of reused garbage as most people would see it, same as boosting the aesthetics to achieving the perfect balance between new components but not taking the pencils value away, it had to stay as the core of the project. The methodology used was taking the object to diferent scenarios and letting random people a pencil if they needed to write something down, none of them needed it but all where stuned when they saw the little dying pencil as a loyal all life friend. Smiling people everywhere asking how to acquire one even tho no one really wanted to write, however all wanted to stand with that last stand loyal piece of pencil 223 out of 223 people where desperate to buy it not for being fancy but to give their old pencils one last breath before being the trully term useless. Now we can resignify useless.
Inspiration: I'm a creative concept designer so I sketch all the time, I make a minimum of 5 ideas per day, I love the conceptual start conceived with hand analog sketching, therefore I use a lot of pencils. However, I always get these little pieces or pencils leftovers, I love the pencils I work with so I wanted to make something for them to be used until the very last posible instead of having to trow them away because of not having a good grip. Of course always keeping elegant premium design and dynamism
Project Duration: This project started on February 2023 in Cali, Colombia and is currently posted on Ospinaumbreitdesign instagram platform, with pre sell focus
Operation Flow: The dying pencil goes into the body, the cap keeps the pencil in place, the center metal piece helps re positioning the pencil everytime it gets sharpened and controling stress, the back point works for crafts
Team Members: Juan Ospina
Image Credits: Image #1: Juan David Ospina (designer, modeler and renderer), Last stand, 2023