Tools

OP3N GRAPH

An open-source modular graphic toolkit, 3D printed and made to be taken apart and modified.

OP3N GRAPH is a modular set of graphic tools designed to be 3D printed and taken apart. Every component is open and editable: the mechanics of the tool make sense through handling, without going through a manual. Swapping tips changes how the ink flows and lands on the page, and a further prototype adds a pump and an ink mixer for finer control. The full toolkit is open-source.

The whole kit laid out: printed spec sheets, spare tips, barrels, caps and a row of discs.

One assembled tool standing upright, a ball set in its dark head and ink staining the barrel.

Three interchangeable tips standing on their labelled cards, each one a different cone.

A bird drawn in black ink, the tool that drew it lying across the page.

A hand draws yellow with the thick tip, the printed cone soaked and leaving a broad wash.

Both hands steady the tool over green lettering, a jar of ink open beside the sheet.

The word liquid written in green, the ink running downward before it dried.

The fine tip at work, drawing a thin green line across a page of loose shapes.

The ball tip laying down a thick wet line of yellow-green in one long curve.

A marker adds a small teal mark at the centre of a tangle of red loops.

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