2019 Japan Stationery Awards Winners Announced

Recently, the "2019 Japan Stationery Awards"

Finally announced the award-winning products!

Japan, as a stationery powerhouse, has countless related awards.

Among numerous stationery items,

22 stationery items won awards this year.

These are the Grand Prize, Design Award, Functionality Award, and Creativity Award.

These 4 grand awards and 18 departmental awards.

Today, let's take a look at the outstanding features of these designs.

Grand Prize

GLOO Square Glue Stick

This year, the winner of the Grand Prize is

This GLOO glue stick.

Approximately 10 RMB.

This glue stick first wins in its shape, The square design doesn't miss any corner, It leaves a blue mark when applied, Making it easy to confirm the adhesion position, It will turn transparent after a while.

This series uses color to distinguish products, Blue represents reusable adhesive, Gray is standard viscosity, and red is super strong viscosity.

Design Award

Tombow MONO Graph GRIP Mechanical Pencil

The Design Award winner is the Japanese Tombow brand.

Their MONO series is deeply loved by the awards.

This mechanical pencil is also interesting.

The price is about 20 RMB.

What's interesting about it? In addition to the conventional downward pressing of the clip to eject the lead, You can also "shake it" - shake out the lead, Easy to operate, shake as much as you need, Then push the clip upwards to fix the lead.

Functionality Award

SAILOR Naginata Togi Fountain Pen

SAILOR is a century-old Japanese fountain pen brand.

It is said that after using their pens, people don't want to buy other pens anymore.

And this award-winning Naginata Togi fountain pen is a magical item.

Netizens say that the characters written with it are like those written with a brush.

Traditional fountain pens can only be written in a fixed direction, But this design subverts tradition.

By changing different angles, You can write different thicknesses of fonts.

Creativity Award

Kanmido maco Portable Tape Pen

 

The Japanese are crazy about their love for washi tape.

Therefore, there is this design - tape pen.

Kanmido's maco can hold 4 15mm wide washi tapes.

Ballpoint Pen Award

Zebra Blen Ballpoint Pen

Its feel is very cool, Mainly solving two problems: Pen body shaking and noise.

A special spring is added to the pressing system, Reducing a lot of noise during writing, This pen is priced around 9 RMB on Taobao.

Floating Sign Award

kanmido nokoto Double-sided Adhesive Memo

As a regular guest of the Japan Stationery Awards,

There is always an award-winning product every year.

This year, it is the round nokoto.

The memos we usually see are single-sided adhesive, They are easy to fall off after a long time, But nokoto is double-sided, Firmly locking the paper, Thoughtfully designed into a circle, You don't have to worry about being scratched by the paper.

Pencil Case Award

SONIC Upright Pencil Case

Most pencil cases are lying down.

Every time you look for a pen, you have to search for a long time.

This semi-open standing pencil case

Allows you to see everything at a glance.

The pencil case has magnets, The front half can be folded down and adsorbed to the bag body, Standing steadily, you can also put your mobile phone inside.

Storage Award

LIHIT LAB SMART FIT ALTNA Storage Bag

The Japanese obsession with storage

Has permeated every detail of life.

This storage bag is a typical example.

Suitable for office use and also for business trips

It can stand on the office desk

Each pocket has a clear division of labor

Sticky Note Award

Furukawa Paper Bread Sticky Notes

Furukawa Paper has always been very popular in Japan

Their sticky notes are really cute

I want to take every single one of them

The bread series is particularly well-received

No wonder it won the stationery award for sticky notes

Each one looks like a piece of fragrant, soft bread

Every time I use them, it's a small happiness

Bulldog Clip Award

PLUS Bulldog Clip

Usually when we use bulldog clips,

we need to use a lot of force

to barely open the clip a little

The PLUS bulldog clip adds fulcrums on both sides, which can save half the effort and reduce hand pain, This bulldog clip also won last year's ISOT Stationery Award for Skill

Scissors Award

PLUS fitcut CURVE Twiggy

Portable pen-shaped scissors

Scissors are not something that can be easily carried around, Designed in the shape of a pen, isn't it much more convenient?

The award-winning products of the Japan Stationery Awards each year

are selected by famous Japanese stationery clerks

based on both functionality and design

Every item is very small,

but it starts from the perspective of user-friendly design

to solve the most common problems in life

Source: Creative Shop