Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj by Juan Ospina

Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj by Juan Ospina is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Hlau in Tsim Duab 3D Luam Tawm thiab Khoom Luam 3D Competition Category.

HlauKev Luam 3D· 2023

Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj

by Juan Ospina

Client: Ospina Umbreit Design

A' Design Award Hlau Winner in Kev Luam 3D Category

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The Design

About Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj

Last Stand yog ib qho cwj ntsuas los ua kom cov cwj luv tseem siv tau. Lub cev raug luam ua 3D nrog resin thiab ntsuas 15 millimeters ntawm nqe thiab 150 millimeters ntawm siab. Ib daim me nyuam hloov chaw uas raug muab txiav ntawm tsheb tsim khoom tsib qhov (five axis machine) uas ua los ntawm aluminium alloy, pab kom tus cwj rov qab tso raws li lub sijhawm txhua zaus ntaus kom ntse. Ib lub kaus tuav tus cwj kom nyob ruaj, thiab tus taw tom qab siv rau kev ua khoom sib xyaw (craft work). Lub cev raug luam ua ob feem, tus tshuaj hlau raug muab tso rau hauv, thiab ob feem ntawv sib txuas nrog tib yam resin. Lub hom phiaj yog los txo qhov khoom siv cwj pov tseg.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hlau

Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. Last Stand Lub Cev Ntsuas Xa Cwj tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

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