To each his pencil

At the Royal College of Art in London are using waste to create the school free art supplies for her students and a small company that could lead to some schools' income, resulting in one of the most elegant closed-loop systems production that we saw. A new project that transformed the school into a recycling plant for their own waste by using materials transmitted by each department to make the product that every student needs art: pencils.

"The design is to explore the natural and social opportunities that surround us, taking advantage of every situation, linking human activities with environmental principles," these are the words of a recent graduate Ariane Prin Co.Design says.
was intrigued with the idea of ​​recycling the school when he noticed piles of sawdust joinery flooding the school. Waste away from flying machines have become a sort of post-industrial, granola plastic, resin, wood and fiber.
Prin was able to combine the waste with the flour from the school cafeteria and the water, resulting in a paste that dries into a tough but inflexible - perfect for wrapping pencil. The property has a beautiful surface fitting, plus the oatmeal-like pieces makes an aesthetically pleasing object (a pencil critical for the designer, of course).

For lead, Prin began experimenting with materials recovered from each department. At first, she came across different winning combinations that gave interesting color combinations, such as dry clay out of the ceramics department in conjunction with the Department of graphite liquid glass, or by the Department of etching ink remaining mixed with the wax of the department jewelry. "In one way or another, there is always full containers of materials around the world to school," he says. "These are treasures to me."

Prin said they did not know what he was doing pencils when he decided to launch the project.
At first the pencil hand-assembled with a series of molds, and then switch to using a variety of machines such as syringes. With a team of engineers at the school, Prin has designed her "co-extruder," a simple device that pushes out the cable and the body in appropriate ratios, as an industrialist Play-Doh machine.

Prin and his team have produced about 160 pencils at the Royal College of Art Show, many of which have already been sold.
The hope is that the school can continue to produce pencils until each of the 1,044 students he has one. Prin would also be able to sell pencils to begin fundraising for the school.