Full 圆珠笔 by Lei Wang and Song Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 银奖 in 美术与文具用品设计 Competition Category.

银美术用品· 2021

Full 圆珠笔

by Lei Wang and Song Liu

Client: Rongqi

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 美术用品 Category

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The Design

About Full 圆珠笔

Full卡盒的设计语言是“镂空”，探讨了产品内部功能与外观的关系。主体上铣有细长的空心，以显示内部的金属笔芯。形状形成了合适的握笔区域，在美观与人体工程学之间找到了平衡。此外，Full的重量为19克，握持感良好，提升了用户体验。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Full 圆珠笔是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Full 圆珠笔将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Full 圆珠笔是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design breaks the boundary between inside and outside, and the inner part supporting the writing function is integrated with the hand holding part through the hollow part. This is a fresh experience for users, who can clearly perceive the relationship between this inside and outside.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 15mm x Depth 15mm x Height 135mm，Weight 19 grams
Tags: hollow out, Industrial beauty, ballpen,
Production Technology: The design of Full-pen display the industrial beauty. It is made of aerospace alloy material, and formed by CNC milling, surface blasting, oxidation and other process to create a complete. The design language is "Hollow Out".A slender hollow has been milled on the complete body, to show the Schneider metal Refill inside. The slender hollow is cleverly avoided the finger contact area to hold the pen, which find the balance between beauty and human engineering.
Design Challenge: When designing this product, the major difficulty we encountered is to balance the expression of ergonomic factors and design concepts. Because of the “hollow out” design concept used in the pen holder, the size and shape of the interaction surface between the fingers and the pen need to be carefully considered to meet the needs of comfortable requirement.
Research: In the digital age, there are fewer scenarios written with pens. Hand writing connects thinking and expression, and pen is the medium. At the beginning of the conception, the "Hollow Out" series explored the relationship between inside and outside. In addition to the function and appearance of the product, this inside and outside also contains the inner activities of the user and the true expression of the outside. Therefore, when doing this design, we used the metaphor of design to interpret these two relationships. After completing the design, we also invited the participants to participate in sensory and human-factor testing to evaluate the design elements such as the product's shape and mechanism.
Inspiration: Full ballpoint pen and Empty card case (Design #89764, A' Design Award, 2019 – 2020, A' Art Materials, Stationery Supplies and Gift Items Design Award) are the same series of products, which continue the design language of "hollow out".
Project Duration: The project started in April 2017 in Beijing and finished in August 2017 in Beijing.
Operation Flow: The opening shuttle shape of the penholder skillfully divides the interaction area between the finger and the pen body when holding. The weight of the pen is reduced to 19 grams, which effectively controls the weight. The hollow part in the middle can also prevent the pen from rolling when it lay flat. It is easy to hold and put down. The color of the refill can be learned intuitively through the ribbon of the refill. At the same time, we can see the inner movement of the refill when we rotate the tip of the pen. This is a fresh experience.
Team Members: Lei Wang,
Song Liu
Image Credits: Image #1:Photographer Song Liu, Image #2:Photographer Song Liu, Image #3:Photographer Song Liu, Image #4:Photographer Song Liu, Image #5:Photographer Song Liu.
Main image is Image #1, Optional Images are #2,#3,#4,#5.