n9 The original stationery design brand focuses on the new Chinese style aesthetic design concept. With its unique design language and manufacturing technology, it continuously integrates and innovates "beauty" and "use" in the field of stationery. According to the customer's requirements, we have designed this zodiac series mouse-shaped pen with modern design language. The overall shape is a mouse with a prone arch back. The triangular streamlined body design, the head outline is placed on the top of the pen cover with an abstract sculpture feeling, and the lightweight design language is refined to create more traditional Chinese elements. Contemporary aesthetic writing tools.

We extracted the modeling elements of "rat" and used the simplified modern design language to produce a total of eight first drafts to create more possibilities for combination and at the same time give customers a better choice of solutions.

Scheme 1: The overall shape of the pen presents two tips and a middle drum, abstracting the characteristics of a small mouse head and a tail tip. The shape of the pen cap also continues the characteristics of the mouse. The connection between the pen cap and the pen body is the mouse's ears at the beginning, and the eyes are decorated with different materials.


Scheme 2: The design of the pen cap emphasizes the characteristics of the mouse's mouth, and the sculptural shape is more exquisite. The line of the tip of the nose gradually transitions to a rounded body, which is more sculptural and also has a better sense of use.


Scheme 3: Grasp the elements of the head and tail of the mouse to make body modeling, and the mouth increases the sense of delicacy through heavy metals with different gloss. The high abstraction of the tail also adds to the sense of humor.

Scheme 4: Different from the traditional cylindrical pen, the design scheme adopts the form of rounded rectangular double-layer wrapping, and the inner part of the tail is a geometric abstract mouse. The combination of triangle and semicircle makes the overall shape more modern and technological.

Scheme 5: Different metal material combinations are used, the abstract mouse head shape at the top of the pen cover is used, and the mouth is polished with bright metal. The exaggerated eyes are radiated as modeling decorations. The pen body adopts a half-pack structure, and the curved black metal extends inside, which is shaped like a mouse tail. It can also be used as an interesting element for interacting with the pen.

Scheme 6: Change the shape of the mouse head into a form and express it in the tail. The metal surfaces with different textures are compared so that the overall design can be gathered in the tail, which is introverted and unique.

Scheme 7: According to the study of the twelve zodiac pairs by ancient scholars, there is a rat bite. At the beginning of heaven and earth, chaos did not open. The mouse bit a hole in the sky, and the light of the sun finally appeared, and the yin and yang separated. It is commonly known as "rat bite the sky". Mice are also called heroes of the world. The totem of the mouse symbolizes the worship of the sun and the pursuit of light.

From this statement, the design is developed. The black matte metal corresponds to the night, and the geometric figure of polished bright metal symbolizes the sun shining on the world. The overall shape transitions from a circle to a rectangle, with the concept of a round sky.

Scheme 8: According to an explanation of the 12 zodiac signs, the rat is the only animal with different front and back foot indexes among all the zodiac signs. This particularity also makes the rat the first in the zodiac sign. The design starts from this point, transitioning from the quadrilateral to the pentagonal overall stretch shape, the shape is extremely abstract but has a certain cultural explanation.

Three refinement directions were selected, and the second design scheme was finally determined from the three schemes.

The head shape of the mouse is placed on the top of the pen cap with a concrete sculpture. The pen holder and the pen cap form a circular transition to a rectangular column, including the concept of a round sky.

The length of the pen body, the detailed design of the top of the pen cover and the overall arc ratio have been adjusted, paying attention to details and continuously optimizing.

The overall shape of this zodiac series pen is a mouse with a prone arch back and a triangular streamline body design.

The outline of the head is placed on the top of the pen cover with an abstract sculpture feeling, and the polishing of the mouth is compared with the frosted metal body, showing a simple texture.

The lightweight design language is refined to create writing tools that are more in line with contemporary aesthetics than traditional Chinese elements.

At the same time, two mice are designed at the tip of the pen with symmetrical patterns, simple and clear lines, full of interest.

In addition, there are four options for color matching: purple gray, flushed, Xuanqing, and lead white.


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