We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Juan Ospina about their original and creative Office Gadget design work. Juan Ospina is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original office gadget works.
Juan Ospina ("JO") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Last Stand Office Gadget. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
JO : I do a lot of sketching daily, for both my creative processes and working. One day as I was working I ran out of ergonomics and couldn't continue to use my pencil, which had like 8cm left still. That got me thinking that we use 2/3 approximately of pencils in full comfort regarding ergonomics. So I thought, why dont we give pencils one last stand, to use at least 90-95% of them and not 60%. Of course I added aesthetics, and more but the main focus was to to a secondary product revolving the main one which already exists but is not valued as much; the pencil.
JO : My main focus was to benefit both designers with more pencil usage and pencils with a symbolic honor/value retribution from us; like a "hey I appreciate you for helping me work, design, etc. I aint gonna let you die this fast, I got you"
JO : I'm currently working on prototyping some to check markets before I go into the final production to sell in design houses
JO : Two days the most
JO : I pursuit an inspiration. Made it a part of my daily practice/concepts. and then evolved into a loyalty meaning between human-pencil, a story worth of telling.
JO : I intend to sell this design, either making it myself and selling the final products or selling the lease and gaining a % per production yearly/monthly
JO : I was doing my hourly creative practice, came up with the idea, liked it and then one of my peers told me "hey this looks like one of those design magazines/profiles/press posts, why don't you go for it with this one, then I was like: "yeah why not, I'll check my to do's design competition list, choose one and win it". Next thing I know is I won
JO : Mostly designer/arquitects/artists with a preppy sense for products. It's not a so expensive product but do to the technology required to make it's not the cheapest either so...
JO : This design elevates the value of pencils, not itself alone. People all have families, friends, someone to look for when going htrough hard moments. We can all relate to this meaning behind this product's interaction
JO : The product represents humans' loyalty translated into a secodary product to help the first product's lifespam. Last stand it self is nothing without the pencil, it's a secondary player meant to be so. It's help translated into partnership
JO : I used Solidworks to 3d model, Solidworks visualize to render, and a fdm 3d printer to check human proportions and factibility (I won't give credit to the 3d printers brand unless they wanna sponsor me)
JO : There are 3 actually. 1) As I said above, this product is intended since conception to be a secondary product with no value by itself 2) It's kind of tricky to put a metal centerpiece in a closed resin 3d printed/plastic inyected loop 3)The metal and plastic mix creates an explicit statement, the core of this product is not the product itself but the interaction on loyalty
JO : It's huge, to put a floating metal piece inside a closed plastic main body needs a lot of knowledge in materials behaviour and manufacture processes
JO : I did research on pencils lifespam to see if it was justifiable to make this project or leave it as a digital concept
JO : Other than technical none.
JO : I was confident of winning based on the preliminary score. I knew I had a huge chance to win
JO : I assured the importance of well done conceptualizing more than designing something purely aesthetically appearing without meaning
