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Pencil Collection Браслет by Costis

Pencil Collection Браслет by Costis is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Залізна нагорода A' Design Award in Ювелірні вироби Competition Category.


ЗалізоЮвелірні вироби· 2026

Pencil Collection Браслет

by Costis

Client: Pencil Bracelet by Costis

Залізна нагорода A' Design Award Winner in Ювелірні вироби Category

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The Design

About Pencil Collection Браслет

Дизайн — це поєднання естетики, оригінальності, творчості та пластичності в одному виробі. Костіс любить підкреслювати скульптурний елемент у будь-якому предметі, беручи звичайне й підносячи його до царини надзвичайного. Його захоплює виклик перетворення простого, повсякденного предмета на витвір мистецтва. Цей браслет розкриває красу олівця, який як предмет може здаватися скромним, але насправді є самим засобом творчості Костіса: своїм олівцем він створює свої малюнки. Браслет ковзає по руці й так зручно обертається навколо зап'ястя.

The Recognition

About the Залізна нагорода A' Design Award

Pencil Collection Браслет є переможцем Залізної нагороди A' Design Award — престижного визнання, що присуджується добрим дизайнам, які відповідають професійним і промисловим вимогам, що очікуються від добре спроєктованих творінь. Переможці Залізної нагороди демонструють велику майстерність, високу спеціалізацію, експертне розуміння та творчу спроможність своїх творців. Очікується, що Pencil Collection Браслет буде високо цінованим, улюбленим і обожнюваним творінням, практичним та інноваційним. Цей дизайн-переможець Залізної нагороди A' Design Award інтегрує найкращі галузеві практики та має компетентні технічні характеристики, пов'язані з практичним знанням і талантом. Pencil Collection Браслет поважається за ретельність і розроблений для надання покращень якості життя, які допомагають зробити світ кращим.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties
The Pencil Bracelet is a blend of Aesthetics, Originality, Creativity, Plasticity in a piece.
Costis loves to enhance the sculptural element in any object, by taking the ordinary and elevating it into the realm of extraordinary. He is intrigued by the challenge of elevating a simple, everyday item into a piece of art. This bracelet brings out the beauty of a pencil, which as an object may seem trivial, but is actually the mere medium of his creativity: he uses his pencil to create his drawings.
Dimensions & Packaging
Width 27mm x Length 175mm x Height 8mm. Diameter 60mm. Weight 64.30 grams
18K White Gold, pave' with 6.64 carats of excellent Diamonds and 0.74 carats Ruby, especially cut to fit the tip pf the pencil-shaped bracelet. At the back of the bracelet, another ruby is set, implying the end of the red graphite.
Tags
pencil bracelet, fine jewelry, high jewelry, unique, ingenious luxury
Production Technology
The idea strikes unexpectedly and is quickly sketched on paper. These rough sketches become detailed artistic drawings. Technical specifics are decided later in the workshop. Designs are then created in Rhino software, where Costis applies his modeling expertise for volume and proportion, the factors that can make or break a jewel. The process continues with resin prototyping, fusion, finishing, hand stone-setting, and rhodium plating.
Design Challenge
The main challenge was to obtain the correct volume of a rolled pencil, so that when worn, it could convey immediately to the actual object. Also, setting the graphite tip, in this case an especially cut ruby, also posed a challenge.
Research
My research evolved around the attempt to study how a pencil can be rolled around the wrist. The objective was to render the bracelet comfortable when worn, to choose the right distance between the two meeting edges, and to recreate all distinguishing characteristics, as the writing tip and the end of the graphite.
Inspiration
Costis loves to observe the world we live in. These
are the forms he re-creates through his jewelry, by enhancing the sculptural element in any object, by taking the ordinary and elevating it into the realm of extraordinary. He is intrigued by the challenge of elevating a simple, everyday item into a piece of art. This bracelet brings out the beauty of a pencil, which as an object may seem trivial, but it is actually the mere medium of his creativity: he uses his pencil to create his drawings.
Project Duration
The project started in Athens in September 2012, and was completed in Valenza, Italy in May 2023, to be ready for the Launch of Costis Jewelry in Neiman Marcus, USA.
Operation Flow
This bracelet offers its bearer the joy of wearing a piece that was inspired and transformed from an ordinary and humble object. It slides through the hand, and embraces it so gently, since the pencil rolls around the wrist very comfortably.
Patents
Trademark Costis by WIPO, Registration number 1 525 576
Registration date March 6, 2020, Konstantinos Chamamtzis
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #2: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #3: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #4: Photographer, Lantzounis Dimitrios
Image #5: Photographer, Frangos Ioannis

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