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decorated pens

Decorated pens

That winter, I finally used the mechanic knitting machine Benoît gave me a few years ago. Thus I was able to dress up warmly the transparent ballpens I had. Then I had the idea to decorate these pens from the inside, to create geometric patterns adapted to this small and cylindric shape.

For 5 months, full-time, I became a pen stylist for transparent ballpens. I did 2200 tries on Photoshop and kept 50.

Of course, I offered my « outfits » to BIC, but unfortunately they declined my proposition.

So I decided to sell them so that they can parade in your hands.

There are three types : the chatty, the handsome and the useful ones.

Here are a few examples.

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The chatty ones

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The handsome ones

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The useful ones

Here come the well-dressed biros !

I didn't think about the fact that pupils only use blue pens to write. I use red and green biros to write work papers.

The series had to be completed.

There were 4 seasonal collections sold in a 5-pen pouch (sold out).

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And now the Winter Summer is here !

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few exemples of pencils

Few examples

The well-dressed pens are available in these beautiful places :

L'Atelier Papeterie
97 rue de Belleville
Paris 19ème

Papier Tigre
5 rue des Filles du Calvaire
Paris 3ème

Papeterie Montparnasse
41 rue du Montparnasse
Paris 14ème