Lumin Механический карандаш — Alexis Zapata

Работа Lumin Механический карандаш дизайнера Alexis Zapata является высоко ценимым лауреатом престижной премии 2025 Серебряная премия A' Design Award в конкурсной категории Дизайн художественных и канцелярских принадлежностей.

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Lumin Механический карандаш

Автор: Alexis Zapata

Клиент: Lumin

Лауреат премии Серебряная премия A' Design Award в категории Художественные принадлежности

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Дизайн

О дизайне Lumin Механический карандаш

Lumin — это дизайн, выполненный на 100 процентов из алюминия. Без механизма, для удержания графита используется эластичность материала. Он производится с использованием различных процессов обработки на станках с числовым программным управлением, с ручной отделкой каждого изделия. Идентифицируется гравированным серийным номером и сопровождается упаковкой, подтверждающей его оригинальность. Дизайнер хотел отразить в Lumin эмоцию пустоты. Фрагмент блеска, который живет в каждом человеке, не идеальный, но подлинный. Таким образом, Lumin приглашает к самоанализу и личным размышлениям.

Признание

О награде Серебряная премия A' Design Award

Lumin Механический карандаш — лауреат Серебряной премии A' Design Award, чрезвычайно престижного признания, присуждаемого великолепным, впечатляющим проектам высочайшего уровня. Обладатели Серебряной премии — это в высшей степени блестящие и чрезвычайно творческие работы, демонстрирующие выдающийся опыт, талант и проницательность их авторов. Ожидается, что Lumin Механический карандаш станет чудесной, образцовой работой, заметно профессиональной и глубоко инновационной. Этот проект, получивший Серебряную премию A' Design Award, — весьма примечательное, вызывающее восхищение изобретение, которое приносит пользу и раздвигает границы искусства, науки, дизайна и технологий. Lumin Механический карандаш — творение, которому многие завидуют, оно пробуждает желания, дарит положительные чувства и вызывает изумление и восторг.

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Уникальные свойства: Lumin represents an emotion, of emptiness, to give rise to the new. A fragment of light, not perfect but authentic, that shines one's own brilliance. Materialize the intangible.
In its packaging, emptiness is symbolized. Where, for the light to find us, we must find that breaking point.
The pencil, what must always shine, protect itself, defend...Education.
"Alumina,
light that propagates through the emptiness.
Lumin, born from absence."
Размеры и упаковка: Mechanical pencil, material aluminum alloy 2011, weight 90 grams, dimensions 100 mm x 19 mm, between the faces of the hexagon
Packaging material 300 gr illustration, printing full color, finish matte polypropylene on both sides, die cut digital, finish 2 double sided, dimensions 140 mm x40 mm x 40 mm
Теги: emotion, intangible, emptyness, authentic, light, absence, aluminum, alumina
Технология производства: Lumin is an exclusive design, made 100 percent from aluminum. Stripped of any mechanism, it uses the elasticity of the material to hold the graphite. It is produced using different numerical control machining processes, with a manual finish in each of them. Identified with its engraved serial number and accompanied by the packaging that authenticates it.
Дизайнерская задача: From 2017 to 2022, I was a professor at a university in the model and prototype workshop. After the pandemic, classes were taught online, so the workshop became unnecessary. This made me think about how education changed, and today I think the pencil was an act of protest to defend it. It wasn't easy to find a CNC lathe operator willing to make only 100 units at first; they usually order 1,000 units. Costs also increased due to devaluation in my country. Even the cost of the packaging was high, given the small quantity, so I had to do it using digital offset.
I made virtually no profit, nor was I interested in making any. It was a process through which I was able to understand the anguish I carried inside, and by materializing it, I was able to face it and thus let it go.
Исследование: The initial idea was to create a mechanical pencil using discarded aluminum. Information was collected on different mechanical pencils and their possible mechanisms. At that time, as a teacher in a model and prototype workshop, I had access to lathes where the first six prototypes were created. They were so popular that I began researching how to mass-produce them, since making them individually is time-consuming. Today, it has become a coveted object for designers, architects, and artists. I would like to make a more democratic product, making it accessible to everyone, but production costs are high for the quantities I can make.
Вдохновение: It was an exploration of personal introspection of my emotions.
Lumin was the key to a new stage. It was my breaking point, to change my reality.
Продолжительность проекта: At the end of 2020, 6 functional prototypes were made and the pre series was launched in July 2023.
It participated in Buenos Aires, Argentina in INNOVAR 2023 with the ID 23902 and Sello Buen Diseño 2025 with the ID 5834.
Рабочий процесс: Release the lead from the packaging by pushing the tip of the mechanical pencil inward from one side to eject it from the other side and pulling to remove it. Do not open, disassemble, or break the packaging.

The lead is 5,5 mm and is adjusted when released, vertically with the tip pointing down, always opening slightly to the sides. Hold the lead with both hands on a horizontal surface to prevent the lead from falling out.
If it has been held for a long time, you may need to open it and simultaneously press the lead on a horizontal surface to release it from its internal grip. The lead should fall freely when the clip is opened.

Reload from the rear vortex by inserting a 5,5 mm lead, positioning it vertically with the tip pointing down, fitting the lead into the front hole, and opening it slightly to the sides again to adjust the length.

The length of the graphite exposed is adjusted using the same procedure. Place the clamp against a horizontal surface and adjust it to the desired length.

-The opening is minimal. While the material holds the graphite, it is not very elastic. If the graphite is moved without opening it, it will wear down and the clamp will no longer work.
Патенты: -Patented. Patent No 103.171. Alexis Zapata. 2022. Argentina.
-Trademark belong to Alexis Zapata, 2024, registration number 3.504.852.

Intellectual Property Institute of the Argentine Republic
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/inpi
Авторы изображений: Image #1: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #2: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #3: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #4: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.
Image #5: Photographer Federico Ariel Serrano, 2025.