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Beyond Object's Align Pen: Fix the Form to Deploy the Tip

Make it right to make it write

By Rain Noe - May 11, 2018

in Object Culture

These are three of the pens roaming around my desk that I'll grab when I need to sketch something. I don't love any of them but I got them all for free.

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They're all ballpoints that deploy the tip when a portion of the pen is rotated. That's a nifty and timeless feature, but London-based design firm Beyond Object has done the classic mechanism one better, adding a visual and tactile trick that gives you the satisfaction of correcting the pen's interrupted form in order to deploy the tip:

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ALIGN|a minimal pen with a twist from Shikai Tseng on Vimeo.

Called "Align," the $70 pen ain't cheap, but I like the thinking behind it. If only Autodesk handed these out at the conventions….

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Dan Farrow

6 years ago

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I feel I would be frustrated that the top of the pen remains misaligned..!

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Björn Bengtsson

6 years ago

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atleast it doesnt roll of the table

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Phillip Nguyen

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"adding a visual and tactile trick that gives you the satisfaction of correcting the pen's interrupted form in order to deploy the tip"

The form is still interrupted when you deploy the tip and it counters the whole purpose of the title of the pen because it doesn't "align"

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