a dozen pencils

this is a project by yuta watanabe, a japanese design student in london. (portfolio: here) a dozen pencils caught my attention a while back, probably speaking to my office-supply fetishisms. some of the ideas are more enticing than others; i like the clothespin, the glasses... but looking at them again, i think i mostly like the colors and background gradients in these photos. it evokes a moodiness that i think i see in a lot of films, and not in a lot of art: a grown-up effort to recreate an "elementary school earnestness."