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Designs for Both a Pen and Storage Containers Whose Caps You'll Never Lose

By industrial designer and ID professor Tomas Kral

By Rain Noe - December 20, 2021

in Object Culture

Here's a nifty prototype for a pen whose cap you'll never lose:

That's by industrial designer and professor Tomas Kral. In addition to teaching ID at Switzerland's ECAL (Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) for the past 15 years, Kral runs his own product design studio.

Looking through his book, I spotted this design for a very different object with a similar mechanism to the pen:

That line of storage containers is amusingly named for their inspiration, Clown Nose.

Kral's book is pretty deep, and well worth a look. Check it out here, or see his Instagram.

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These Norwegian reusable water bottles have been in production since the late 90's based on a very similar concept https://purewater.eu/nb/pure-serve/

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