Published on | Prototyping: From UX to Front End — Medium Andrew Pyza

I may be wrong, but I believe that you all have a pencil stub, lying dormant in some dark drawer, discarded half way through.

We all have at least one, think about how many perfectly usable pencils that is, think about how many refills are out there, that is a lot of art just waiting to be created.

Waste is a general acceptance these days for those stubs, though most of us cannot throw them out, they just accumulate instead.

The pencil has been around since 1564 — I bet back then, pencils were finished, has anyone ever finished a pencil? If so, I’d love to talk because the pencil+ is going to help allow you to draw longer, easier.

The pencil+ was designed to provide you the best tool for your pencils — especially those stubs.

Keep them sharp while in transit.

Keep them sharp when they eventually break.

Extend them back to a comfortable length.

Great tools age well

The plan is to launch with lightweight aluminum and sturdy brass after the project reaches its goals. Both will have interchangeable parts, allowing you to customize your pencil+ and to allow replacement of blades to keep your pencil+ going long into the future. While having less impact on resources, if there is a catastrophic breakdown the produ ct can be recycled.

The pencil+ is the upgrade the pencil has been waiting 453 years for.

Who is the pencil+ for?

The pencil+ is for anyone who loves to draw, but especially designed for the creative community from within the creative community. I’ve been drawing since grade 1 from what I can remember, and I was terrible, but I got better as I aged. Then becoming a graphic designer out of school and now an industrial designer I wanted to solve the problem pencils pose for us who simply want to just draw. The pencil+ is something I’d ideally want you to pass down to your children and get them drawing while teaching to use resources completely because we have that responsibility.

Packaging

The same ideals for the pencil+ were taken in consideration with the packaging. The core packaging for the pencil+ is a harden glass display tube, secure with a snug magnetic cork pencil holder. Designed to function as a display piece, in retail or at home — or too be repurposed or recycled. Packaging delivered to your door will be secured in snug corrugated cardboard with wood shavings for protection too also be repurposed or recycled.

Next steps

The pencil+ is going to be priced at 50 Euros per unit with availability from Europe and America, while world-wide shipping will be possible through the ecom platform. Next steps are to launch a Kickstarter campaign to start the official first mass production of the pencil+.

Andrew Pyza

Pencil+

info@pencilplus.nl

www.pencilplus.nl

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