Last Stand מאריך עיפרון by Juan Ospina is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 פרס הברזל של A' Design Award in עיצוב צורות ומוצרים בהדפסת תלת-ממד Competition Category.

ברזלהדפסת תלת-ממד· 2023

Last Stand מאריך עיפרון

by Juan Ospina

Client: Ospina Umbreit Design

פרס הברזל של A' Design Award Winner in הדפסת תלת-ממד Category

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The Design

About Last Stand מאריך עיפרון

טקסט הספר: לאסט סטנד הוא מאריך עיפרון שנועד לאפשר המשך שימוש בעפרונות קצרים. הגוף מודפס בתלת-ממד משרף וקוטרו 15 מילימטרים וגובהו 150 מילימטרים. חלק מרכזי נע, המעובד משביט אלומיניום במכונת חמישה צירים, מאפשר למקם מחדש את העיפרון לאחר כל חידוד. כובע מחזיק את העיפרון במקומו, וקצה אחורי ניתן לשימוש בעבודות יצירה. הגוף מודפס בשני חלקים, החלק המתכתי מוכנס פנימה, ושני החלקים מחוברים באמצעות אותו רף. המטרה היא לצמצם בזבוז עפרונות.

The Recognition

About the פרס הברזל של A' Design Award

העיצוב Last Stand מאריך עיפרון זכה בפרס הברזל של A' Design Award, הכרה יוקרתית הניתנת לעיצובים טובים שעומדים בדרישות המקצועיות והתעשייתיות הנדרשות מיצירות מעוצבות היטב. זוכי הברזל מפגינים מיומנות רבה, התמחות גבוהה, הבנה מומחית ויכולת יצירתית של יוצריהם. מהעיצוב Last Stand מאריך עיפרון מצפים שיהיה יצירה מוערכת מאוד, מוערצת ואהובה שהיא מעשית וחדשנית. העיצוב הזה שזכה בפרס הברזל של A' Design Award משלב את השיטות הטובות ביותר בענף ויש לו מאפיינים טכניים מוכשרים הקשורים לידע מקצועי ולכישרון. העיצוב Last Stand מאריך עיפרון זוכה לכבוד בזכות היסודיות שלו ומעוצב לספק שיפורים באיכות החיים שעוזרים להפוך את העולם למקום טוב יותר.

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