artist7 April 2021

The Designer's Mechanical Pencil x artist opportunity

To celebrate the launch of our new Mechanical Pencil – now funding on Kickstarter – we have teamed up with select artists, illustrators and even cartographers for special edition collaborations. Now we are looking for an artist, illustrator, designer, doodler, amateur or professional to partner with for our fourth and final limited edition spot. Tap here to enter.

Wingback Mechanical Pencil X Artist Collaboration

Submissions are now closed. A huge thanks to everyone who entered. We will announce the winner in our monthly newsletter later in April.

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WANT TO COLLABORATE WITH US?

To celebrate the launch of our new Mechanical Pencil – now funding on Kickstarter – we have teamed up with select artists, illustrators and even cartographers from around the world for special edition collaborations.

Now we are looking for an artist, illustrator, designer, doodler, amateur or professional to partner with for our fourth and final limited edition spot.

The winner will have their design laser engraved along the barrel of our brass and stainless steel Mechanical Pencil, which will be made available on our Kickstarter page for the remainder of the campaign.

The artist will also win their own limited edition Mechanical Pencil featuring their artwork, plus five more to gift to friends and family.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

As you will see from our previous collaborations below, bold line drawings work well as the laser engraving can accurately pick out intricate detail. However, colour and shading doesn't work so well.

The Mechanical Pencil "canvas" is 29.85mm width x 65.00mm height. The design can feature on just one section or wrap around the barrel of the pencil. If the latter it will need to work as one continuous design, such as Lei Melendres' example below.

If you have a design ready to go, we will ideally need a vector file, but a hi-res jpeg or png of your submission will be fine too. We'll also need the name of your design and a brief description about your artwork.

So to clarify:

- We're looking for black and white artwork

- Line drawings work well

- Try to avoid large areas of shading – good use of negative space works best

- The Pencil's canvas size is 29.85mm width x 65.00mm height

HOW DO YOU ENTER?

To enter, please send your submission to hello@wingback.co.uk.

Entries close at midnight on Sunday 11 April so get your submissions in quick.

We can't wait to see what you come up with.

Check out the campaign for our new Designer's Mechanical Pencil here.

To get the creative juices flowing, below is a gallery of our previous artist collaborations, two of which are available to back on our Kickstarter this month.

The Mechanical Pencil X Anoushka Irukandji