Back in 2011, I took Stanford product design's Design Form class. Our challenge midterm was to identify a designer in one field (specifically NOT one who designs pens), and delve deep into what made their designs, in your mind, standout, and what elements marked the design as one of this designer's own.

We were to then design a pen as a homage to said designer.

I chose Walter de Silva, car designer extraordinaire. I took a good look at his body of work, and started playing around with where the lines fell. What his cars' proportions looked like, and what the overall aesthetic, in my mind, conveyed.

The pen is a ceramic, CNC'd model.