We've been designing desk products for over a decade, studying thousands of offices and workspaces. No matter what, clutter creeps in! So we were inspired to design drawing tools that would look great whether they were put away or left out.

We looked at tools we had lying around. Most were constructed by simply punching the shape from a sheet of metal or plastic. This manufacturing style gets the job done—but we wanted to create tools that were better. Flat punched material is limited to two dimensions, whereas machining allows interesting three-dimensional shapes to emerge. It’s a harder, more intensive process, but it allows us to push our sculptural design.

The structure of the tools make them better to handle and easier to pick up. They fit nicely into your hand. We created a numberless design, using precision contrasting laser etched lines and dots to indicate useful measurements, leaving the surface uncluttered.