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Single Markers Designed to Replace an Entire Set

With their range of gradations, Chameleon Pens may help you shrink your marker collection

By Rain Noe - October 1, 2015

in Sketching | Crowdfunding | design.edu

As we saw here, industrial designers and ID students need to carry a lot of markers. But now Indiana-based Chameleon Art Products reckon you can reduce your collection and perhaps gain some desk space by going with their Chameleon Pens, single markers that can produce the gradations you'd normally achieve with a handful.

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The dual-chambered, dual-tipped Chameleons pull this trick off through a combination of alcohol ink and toner, which react via opposing, specially-designed nibs. Have a look:

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Expected to retail for six bucks each, they're going for $5 on Kickstarter—and slightly less if you buy more. Not only was this project funded within 48 hours of the campaign launch, but it appears a lot of folks are going all in on it: The $105 20-color sets are already all sold out.

At press time there were $29 days left to pledge, and the Chameleons will reportedly be in your hands by February 2016.

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jared french

9 years ago

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or just buy an iPad Pro and never again buy regurgitated dead trees & cooked up inks. Sketching is used to convey an idea. And there's no worse idea than propping up an old industry that wastes resources for the sake of students & pros scribbling within a wasteful industry.

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Elshan Amrahov

9 years ago

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Amazing Invention

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Paul Lewis

9 years ago

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This is cool and all, but I thought blending with a Q-tip and isopropyl alcohol was common knowledge in marker rendering.

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