DESIGN NAME: Dear Paper
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Pen and Letter Opener
INSPIRATION: We expect to design a pen that has different vitality and functions and is not restricted by the appearance and rigorous design of traditional stationeries, and redefine the image of pen on the market.
We add elements of human emotion as an extension to express the feeling of missing and expectation in writing through appearance and functions. Dear paper is the feeling that everyone once possessed and the most real reflection of our life.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Writing letters is the only way for us to contact each other initially. We record the feeling of missing only through characters. Writing at the end of stationery meanwhile symbolizes the yearning for a letter in reply. The combination of pen and letter opener expresses hope and expectation. The product integrates the concrete behaviors of recording the feeling of missing via pen and opening expectation with design and aesthetics and endows pens with new life and stories.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Users can write on the paper through opening the cover and open letters through letting the knife face of letter opener directly face the inner side of stripping position and gashing along the edge.
Dear Paper emphasizes the exterior curve, through which the letter opener and open is presented. Additionally, the experience proves the overall design with good hand feeling, which enables users to write more comfortably.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Dear Paper started in October 2014, finished in July 2017.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Stainless steel : CNC turning and milling, polishing
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Head of the circle : 18*18*193mm 26g
Head of the triangle : 14*14*183mm 25g
Head of the hexagon : 13*13*180mm 23g
TAGS: pen, letteropening, letteropener, opener, writing, hope, expect, life, promise, productdesign
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The design redefines the beauty of dancing with paper. Letters are time-honored communicative way of people. The original idea of Dear Paper is to deepen the impression of commitment through the interaction between the product and paper in a time when handwriting is no longer popular.
CHALLENGE: How to make customers feel the design philosophy of commitment and the feeling of missing with usage.
ADDED DATE: 2018-01-17 13:36:38
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Zeng-yi Liu, Zhi-wei Zhang, Chi-lun Liu and Chen-yeh So
IMAGE CREDITS: Dushui Design Studio, 2017.
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