Your sketches and notes will carry a lot more weight if they’re created with this squat mechanical pencil that’s made from actual hand-poured concrete. You’ll just want to make sure you’re not the type who likes chewing on the end.
The pencil has an equally thick 5.5mm 2B lead making it slightly better suited for sketching and drawing than taking notes, but there’s nothing stopping you from using it however you like. Whether that’s jotting reminders on a post-it note, marking term papers, or smashing windows — it’s useful on so many levels.
You’ll need to be a little careful with it, after all, it’s made from concrete, not titanium. An unfortunate drop could result in $50 worth of shattered concrete pieces all over your floor, and you having to resort back to using an uncouth wooden writing instrument. [22 Design Studio via designboom]
Eccentric
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 3:21 PMOk, first, its not concrete, concrete has an aggregate in it, more likely it’s a cement with a resin or some similar substance. Second it looks like it would be quite heavy and third, where the hell do you get 5.5mm leads?
Ozoneocean
Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 3:29 PMDrafting or art supply shops. They’re horrible things, very dirty and messy! I’m so glad I made the move to digital only art…
I like the idea of a concrete pen, but I’d really prefer the highly polished sort. That would be the ultimate!
iTurd
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 2:11 AMAnother useless, pointless, expensive piece of stupidity. And people will buy it.
light487
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 11:22 AMI could understand having a system whereby you can increase and decrease the weight to suit your purposes.. but not this.
cflow
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 1:51 PMSo speaking as a fan of 2B as a medium to work with, a concrete drawing implement would impact the illustration by making line work really heavy and gentle shading improbable.
If that’s what you are after, great, but a standard retractable would be lighter and give you more range.
Fail.