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A PENCIL

A pencil resembles a seed. While it has a specific form in its current state, as a tool to perceive, represent, and communicate, it has been giving birth to humankind’s ideas and structures.

 

UNIQUE PERSONAL OBJECT VERSUS MASS PRODUCTION

The key idea behind HA Pencils is to develop unique varieties of an object personalized for different people. This is in contrast with mass produced objects, which either assume identical users or target the lowest common denominator of people. The slow production of handmade HA Pencils makes it possible to explore more complex interplays of form, material and user/creator. HA Pencils aim to create a sense of attachment to a personal creativity tool that invites the users/creators to discover their new angles.

 

A TRILOGY OF FORM, MATERIAL AND CREATOR

HA Pencils, first and foremost, explore how the form and material interact. This interaction is most intriguing in wooden artifacts, as each piece of wood has a unique ever-changing structure depending on its original position in the tree and the environmental conditions it is exposed to. As the heterogeneously-formed HA pencils are crafted in tandem with the wood structure, each HA Pencil grows into a unique object, a replica of which is highly unlikely to come into existence.

In this context, the craftmanship involved in the creation of HA Pencils means that each pencil evolves from past experiences of the creator. At times, when the form-material interaction struggles to create a distinctive product, time-varying parameters associated with the creator, such as his mood, mindset and perception of the process, contributes to a more complex synthesis of form and material into a unique product.

Geometry

In an analogy with a free-standing tower with an empty core, the proportional geometry of a pencil is dominated by its distinctive height extended on its small footprint. From a geometric point of view, HA Pencils are made of multiple organic and abstract sections, which evolve into each other along the pencil’s axis to respond to the dynamics of handgrip in the process of writing or drawing.

 

Ergonomics

The ergonomic design of HA Pencils relies on four surfaces. Three surfaces are touched by the tip of the fingers and the forth surface connects the index finger and thumb. There is no unique solution to respond to people’s handgrip habits, who are commonly accustomed to circular pens. Even if a pencil projects the exact form of a handgrip, adapting to the new from takes some time.