A fountain pen that never dries out? The answer lies in this pen’s redesigned cap - Yanko Design

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The fountain pen hasn't seen much innovation in the past decade aside from garnering a lot of interest on Instagram and Facebook with those therapeutic calligraphy videos. At that place's something quite literally old-school almost the fountain pen. It's elegant, classy, has a user experience that'south definitely dated, but hasn't grown onetime. People still use fountain pens today, because they're elite, graceful, and deliver a line quality that's beyond compare, thank you to the fountain pen's power to apply different kinds of ink. The fountain pen, nonetheless, has two flaws that haven't gone away with fourth dimension. A. Sometimes they leak. In your hand, in your pocket, on paper. They're fragile, and whatsoever unwanted pressure level on the ink-menstruum mechanism and the ink gets everywhere. B. When they're not leaking, they're busy drying up. All inks are h2o-based, and since the fountain pen isn't like a ball-point or gel pen, with an air-tight refill, ink within the fountain pen'due south tip is almost e'er in contact with air, being affected by temperature, etc. This causes the ink around the tip to dry out out. A dry tip is a headache because it stops the ink-catamenia, and you demand to manually clean out the tip before you can utilise the pen again.

With a marvelous bit of problem solving, done through re-engineering a product that hasn't seen much innovation in over one-half a century, Indigraph eliminates the pen's drying out problem. How does it practice this? By constantly keeping the pen's tip in contact with h2o! The answer seems almost child-like, but with some design and technology skill, Indigraph manages to pull it off. The pen's cap is redesigned to business firm a mini-h2o-reservoir. When yous secure the cap on summit of the pen'due south bill, the nib makes contact against a specially engineered membrane that keeps information technology moist. The water doesn't drip onto the pen's nib… it just keeps it lubricated, cheers to the special membrane. A articulate window on the cap allows you lot to see if the water in the reservoir has run out, and a simple screw-to-open up inlet lets you fill the cap correct upwardly.

The pen'south disruptive cap design gives the Indigraph superpowers. You can now use pretty much any sort of ink with the fountain pen, without worrying almost information technology drying or spoiling the pen's intricate ink-flow mechanism. The Indigraph works with all sorts of ink, including Chinese and Indian inks, making it ideal for calligraphers, artists, designers, drafters, and hobbyists. This ability to constantly maintain (and fifty-fifty clean) itself practically makes the Indigraph for both experienced and amateur fountain pen users. The Indigraph requires no budget apart from the periodic refilling of ink into its body… an action that'due south therapeutic and exciting. The pen comes with a detachable pocket clip as well, giving information technology the flair of a Lamy, with its distinctly minimal body design. Armed with three nibs for dissimilar applications ranging from line-work to calligraphy to fine penmanship, the Indigraph successfully makes an old, loftier-maintenance writing instrument new, innovative, and easy-to-utilise again!

Designers: Iñigo Echeverria, Unai Rollan, Izar Carazo & Sergio Errandonea

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The IndiGraph fountain pen does not dry out out and allows the use of Indian/Chinese ink.

How does it achieve this? Using the advanced IndiGraph technology, a water reservoir is provided in the upper part of the pen cap, separated by a custom-designed membrane, which allows the passage of moisture – but non water – and stops the pecker from ever drying out.

Unlike other fountain pens, IndiGraph allows the use of Indian inks. What's special about this? While using this type of ink, when the ink dries, a waterproof motion-picture show of shellac is created which protects the drawing from h2o, making it ideal for working with watercolors or inking comics, among other graphic arts. This ways that, if you lot become a true Indigrapher, you won't have to worry well-nigh ruining your work – with Indigraph that won't happen.

The origin of the idea goes back to the need to exist able to draw in the open air with Indian ink without a dip pen. In the 1980s, the English company 'Osmiroid ' produced a special pen for this purpose. The pen consisted of a normal fountain pen but with a nib that could exist disassembled to make clean it. The problem was that whenever you wanted to apply it, it was always dry. For this reason, a couple of years ago they started to think most the problem, and it occurred to them that the important affair was to keep the nib moist and prevent the ink from drying.