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Serpentinata Benjamin Pen by Kairi Eguchi Receives the Silver A' Design Award in 3D Printed Forms and Products Design
Kairi Eguchi recognized for 3D printed forms and products design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 18, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the 3D Printed Forms and Products Design category for Serpentinata Benjamin Pen by Kairi Eguchi, designed for Kairi Eguchi Studio. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Serpentinata Benjamin Pen
Serpentinata Benjamin is a ballpoint pen produced with 3D printing. All parts except the refill are 3D printed. The pen is transparent when new and gradually turns yellow with use, especially when exposed to sunlight. Yellowing of plastic under ultraviolet light is usually seen as a defect in industrial products, and Serpentinata Benjamin treats the change as a positive quality. Each pen develops its own color over time, in the way that musical instruments, leather goods and wooden furniture age with their owners. The pen measures 9.5 by 9.5 by 105 millimeters including the cap.
About Kairi Eguchi
Established in 2008, KED is a Japanese industrial design studio based in Osaka. With the studio philosophy - “Discover the unknowns.”, KED not only provide standard design service, but also continue expanding its services such as product planning, design strategy, etc. to provide elegant and new approach for a better user experience. With the exhibition experience at Milan’s Salone Satellite for three times, KED signaled the start of numerous overseas exhibitions and projects / collaborations throughout the international design arena.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kairi Eguchi is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' 3D Printed Forms and Products Design Award
The A' 3D Printing Design Award is an international 3D printing design competition recognizing good 3D printed works by designers and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to 3D printing designers, industrial design studios, product designers and 3D printing brands from all countries. Typical entries include products designed and realized with latest technologies, 3D printed products, prosthetics, architectural models, jewelry and furniture. The awarded 3D printed designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/3d-printing
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/163508
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163508
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163508
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/300803
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.kairi-eguchi.com/en/project/serpentinata-benjami
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Serpentinata Benjamin Pen
- Function
- Pen
- Category
- 3D Printed Forms and Products Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Innovation
- Colors
- Light Gray, Silver, Rosy Brown, Dark Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kairi Eguchi Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kairi Eguchi
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163508
Credits
- Image Credits
- Creator (Product Designer) Kairi Eguchi, New and After, 2024.; Creator (Product Designer) Kairi Eguchi, Perspective for Both, 2024.; Creator (Product Designer) Kairi Eguchi, Open, 2024.; Creator (Product Designer) Kairi Eguchi, Close, 2024.; Creator (Product Designer) Kairi Eguchi, Perspective Single, 2024.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Depending on the material, plastic can turn yellow under the influence of ultraviolet rays. This phenomenon, known as “yellowing,” was originally frowned upon and regarded as a bad thing for industrial products. The 3D printed ballpoint pen “Serpentinata Benjamin,” is designed to tackle this new interpretation of plastic. It reinterprets the negative phenomenon of yellowing plastic into a positive one.
- Inspiration
- Products such as musical instruments, small leather goods, and wooden furniture that are used by people over a long period of time become their own unique colors. This ballpoint pen will age with the user through long use, and each piece will take on its own personality. This is a special ballpoint pen that contains the pleasure of nurturing for long usage.
- Realization and Technology
- All parts of the pen aside from the pen refill all use 3D-printing technology. The newly 3D-printed pens are transparent in color at first, and later turns yellow the more exposed it is. The yellowed pen in the picture takes place six months after use.
- Operation and Interaction
- The pen will be transparent in color when the user first start using the product. It will then turn yellow the longer you use it, especially when exposed to the sun.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started at Japan.
- Specifications
- W9.5 × D9.5 × H105mm (including cap)
- Keywords
- 3dprinting, pen, stationery, plastic, yellowing
