Cento3.E presents the Construction Pencil or Multifunction Pencil, with a trilobate shape, in graphene lament and a function unit in chromed metal. Each shaft is individually crafted using innovative additive manufacturing techniques.
Cento3.E presents the Construction Pencil or Multifunction Pencil, with a trilobate shape, in graphene lament and a function unit in chromed metal. Each shaft is individually crafted using innovative additive manufacturing techniques.
In 2002, Achille Castiglioni, together with his friend and colleague Arch. Gianfranco Cavaglià, explored the importance and meaning of 'grip'. Together they designed a set of pencils and pens, creating various wooden prototypes that are still preserved in the Castiglioni archive. The goal was to focus attention on the importance of the pencil as a daily tool and a means to express ideas, visions, and thoughts. For these writing and drawing instruments, they envisioned a trilobate arch form that, thanks to its functional characteristics, embodied the true alliance between mind, hand, and object.
The sketch is instinctive and immediate by its very nature. It tends to resolve the object in its entirety, eliminating all complexity in the contour, "in a single draft of the whole".
Just one atom thick: the thinnest and most alluring substance in the world.
In the challenge of the CENTO3 project and in the desire to introduce a new material to the world of writing, the EGO.M Team found it interesting to complete the common denominator of the writing concept by using writing itself as the main material: a pencil made of pencil, that is, of graphene. With just one atom in thickness, graphene is today the thinnest and most alluring substance in the world. Under normal usage conditions, it has excellent mechanical properties and resistance to chemical agents. The graphene PLA (Polylactic Acid) filament used is biodegradable. Depending on the environments in which it is discarded, it has an average lifespan ranging from 1 to 4 years, compared to the over 100 years of commonly used plastics.
Everything starts with a pencil...
Graphene is a material obtained in the laboratory from the exfoliation of graphite and consists of a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, organized in a hexagonal cell crystalline structure. Its very thin thickness of 0.3 nanometers allows it to be defined as a two-dimensional material. It has the theoretical strength of a diamond and the flexibility of plastic. Flexible, thin, strong, waterproof, and sustainable, graphene is the material of the new millennium with ancient roots, graphite, which are deeply embedded in our daily lives, the pencil.
The trilobate form
The unique form is clear, although complex to manufacture, ergonomic, and suitable for being gripped by three fingers.
It allows the writing object not to roll off the table as all other circular section pens do, and "this aspect seemed of some interest to us," Cavaglià recalls with a smile.
Tools that propose a new and particular behavior: touch and use become a very particular mode of expression and at the same time create an ideal connection between project and user.
Characteristics:
Graphite refill diameter 5.5mm included.
Multifunction length: 10.3 cm
Max. multifunction diameter: 1.5 cm -
Weight: 22 g.
Soft touch cardboard packaging with detailed description of the CENTO3 project.
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