STUDIO TSUYOSHI HAYASHI

Studying with pencils. Studying about pencils.

Bamboo Pencils is a series of pencils made from the skins of fruits and vegetable waste. In tropical areas, where all the wood resource for pencils are coming from, people face serious deforestation due to heavy export dependence as their main industry. Bamboo pencils is an enlightenment tool for kids to educate the situation. Rich colors of pencils are made from the common fruits in these countries such as water melon. By seeing, smelling and touching, kids get to know how the pencils are made and why those pencils are made. The slightly curved shape of the pencil is made by bio-plastic nature of starch, which is also 100 % natural material. Kids can even bite those pencils because they are made from food.