"Double-Click" patented mechanical pencil

Idea for this novelty pencil came up in my mind while I was making a drawing, using a cheap plastic Chinese-made mechanical pencil with so called "side-click led advance system". I needed to erase few lines and realized that small eraser in the back of my pencil was almost gone. This was annoying since I hate to have interruptions during my "creative process". I just thought that instead of having a small and short eraser it could easily accommodate a longer one. There was a room inside pencil for that. But then how to pull eraser out fast and easy? And then I thought of an additional button, which could move eraser out in small increments from the rear of pencil just as button on the pencil in my hands was doing with the graphite led...

This above was one of the design versions where buttons were spread far apart.

Designed by Gennadi Fedorov

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Designing writing instruments again.

Back to designing writing instruments! Below are few quick black-and-white sketches of quite non-standard looking pens. They may be a bit too flashy for my taste. A lot depends on the manufacturing - quality of production and proper materials selection.

Designed by Gennadi Fedorov

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Day-15; Wednesday-July-1-2015; Writing instruments... again. Sharpie (kind of...) permanent markers

Here I took a swing at SHARPIE markers. Probably, one cannot find too many people in this country (possibly, in most countries), who would not be familiar with Sharpie permanent markers. I decided to make few alterations to their most well known design, without "inventing a new wheel", making sure that Sharpies will still remain 

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Day-12; Friday-June-26-2015; Back to designing writing instruments-III

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Another shot at writing instruments. These are two concepts of inexpensive, but unusual in shape ballpoint pens with retracting lead. Both concepts showing over-molding, but this is just beautification and could be skipped if lower manufacturing cost is more important than market value.

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Day-11; Thursday-June-25-2015; Back to designing writing instruments-II

This will be an addition to previous post. Some sketches of pen ideas, made by hand with markers.

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Day-10; Wednesday-June-24-2015; Back to designing writing instruments

I missed two days, leaving them without any new posts - Monday and Tuesday, June 22 and June 23, respectively. I will skip the explanations and reasons, why this happened. It just did. Now I am back on track and back to designing writing instruments. This time I will post marker sketches of some of my "crazy" ideas on "flashy" pens, which, frankly I am not sure I would want myself. But something tells me that thewse designed, if manufactured, may be popular among school and college students.

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Day-6; Thursday-June-18-2015; Wood and lighting design concepts

I think, almost every product designer at some point in his or her career was attracted to the idea of creating new and good looking lighting products. At least, every single designer I have ever known went through such phase. Some even "got stuck" there and made designing lighting equipment their full-time job. 

I have been fascinated by light too and I keeep coming back to this field every now and then. This time I tried to create few quick concepts with wood and/or bent plywood as major materials for lighting objects.   

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Day-5; Wednesday-June-17-2015; Pet food and water bowls

This time I decided to turn my attention to family pets, cats and dogs, and their needs. I designed a set of pet bowls, where wooden frame is used to hold stainless steel bowl. There is a small catch - same wooden frame can be used with smaller and larger steel bowls. Just flip frame over and use a steel bowl that fits frame's opening.

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Day-4; Tuesday-June-16-2015; Wooden rocking horses

Here are couple of concepts of rocking horse for kids, made out of bent plywood. When I designed toys in the past, I often was coming across parent's comments that they would love to have certain toys for their kids, but they have two kids of same or close age and would prefer if that toy could be used by two siblings at the same time to avoid fights and scandals. So, I designed rocking horse which one child can ride or two can share a ride at the same time.

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Day-3; Monday-June-15-2015; Wine rack design concept

Here is a quick set of design concepts of hanging and free-standing wine racks for holding wine bottles and wine glasses. Elements would be executed in bent veneer. Simple, practical and possibly attractive in some specific interior environments. 

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