Dietrich x Düller
Düller is a stationary brand developed by I.D.E.A. Recently, they paired Dietrich Lubs (Braun) and Naori Miyazaki (I.D.E.A.) together to make a small stationary collection, consisting of a ballpoint pen, fountain pen and mechanical pencil. The pieces are made using aluminium and come packaged in a notebook made from recycled Green Aid paper.
I absolutely love the way the black of the outer shell is contrasted ever so subtly with dark-green highlights.
Two of the pieces from the stationary collection are available from Vetted. I picked up the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil from Via Alley on Crown Street in Sydney.
- 14.06.2011 .
- Adrian Clement .
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- Industrial design
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- Naori Miyazaki + Dietrich Lubs
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Wow! It seems to be delightful to write with that pen. I want one =D
Please explain what is minimalist about his pen. Just don’t see it.
Agreed Angel. Even the packaging is excessive.
Hi Angel and Aaron. I posted this here because of my experience with the mechanical pencil and pen. Both of these items are beautiful, clean, modest, balanced, uniform, subtle, well constructed and so forth. I consider these traits some of the best that minimalist design has to offer. I posted this here without much question after knowing of Lubs’ involvement, who we know from his work with Braun. That too, I would call minimalist, but it is also very modernist. And so perhaps I am interchanging the terms too freely, but I find them very interrelated. For me, the best “minimalist” work is also “modern”, so I guess I have a little bit of a bias based on my experience and understanding of these definitions. It is difficult to convey the experience of these pieces in a few pictures and a couple of paragraphs. However, this review showcases some of the elements of the piece in more detail: http://www.pen-info.jp/eng_duller.html
This is my one gripe about this blog; minimalism is used as a general, umbrella term. Visually and conceptually, minimalism can take on very different meaning when being applied to design, art and philosophy. The one common thread I see to posts on this blog is a surface, visual simplicity. However, this does not always make something “minimal”.
@Sloan 8, For me, both things work in tangent: Often something conceptually minimalist informs its aesthetic, and often an aesthetic can inform an idea or a way of thinking. I don’t they are mutually exclusive, but I agree with you completely about how some things are only minimal on the surface. I would never count these things as minimalist, as I usually see that as a cop-out.
Adrian, I don’t think they are mutually exclusive either. My point is more about how minimalism, as applied to design, art and philosophy, gets watered down on this blog; the term means very different things to each of these disciplines. I do believe the common link between posts on this blog is more of a visual one.
Sure, with you on that. I try not to discriminate between disciplines, but sometimes it’s inevitable. Minimalist music, for example, means a very different thing compared to minimalist design.
I must agree with Angel and Aaron, the pen might be a pleasure to write with, but that is not evident by just telling. Since internet pages can only show or let you hear minimalism, the blog should stick to those disciplines I think. If feeling and hearing is possible to experience online, by that time it would great maybe to have an addition like this. But since the pen is not different than many, many others visually, and even less minimalist then bunches of others, it doesn’t fit the profile.
I saw one of these in the Design Museum here in the UK and had to purchase it straight away. Not going to join the debate on whether it qualifies as minimalist or not BUT it is a lovely piece of design – great to look at, hold and use.
However, I do wish I knew where to get refills from…
(lovely site by the way).