nikolas bentel’s chalk drawers create patterns of dots, circles and lines
each chalk drawer is designed on a quinary number system, which allows them to be used as an accurate drawing instrument for any metric system.
nikolas bentel’s architectural drawing toys are made entirely out of chalk. designed with young architects and designers in mind, the three chalk drawers can create geometrically precise patterns of either dots, circles or straight lines.
the circle drawer and the type of mark that it can make
bentel reimagined the typical chalk shape through several 3d-printing experiments before concluding in the three final objects. each drawer is designed on a quinary number system, which allows them to be used as an accurate drawing instrument for any metric system, and, because they can draw five lines at once, the toys can also be used to draw musical staff lines. the drawers are currently on display at the new museum’s store shop in new york city.
the dot drawer and the type of mark that it can make
the line drawer displayed with the type of mark that it can make
the line drawer can make a variety of line widths
the dot drawer can be used to create many dots along your drawing surface
the circle drawer can make a variety of circular patterns
the three drawers are designed specially to either make dots, circles or straight lines to give the user tools to create the three fundamental building blocks of drawing
there are three types of chalk drawers, each is designed with its own special ability
the packaging of the chalk drawers
the installation at the new museum’s storefront window
creating the installation at the new museum’s window display
nikolas bentel using the chalk drawers to create the window display in the lobby of the new museum
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