Tactile Turn
A pen is the coolest thing that anyone can own. Now if you’re like me, you have probably gone through 30,403 plastic pens in your life and contributed to the massive pollution problems of the world. Kidding aside, a good pen is worthwhile, one that can live in your pocket and help you day to day will do more good for you and the world than you’re aware.
Tactile Turn makes pens that are life long friends. They machine them in the USA, right in Texas. For me, a USA made product is always worth paying a little more for, a “little” in this case is a bit of a reach. Normal pens will run you a couple bucks, and do all a pen can. Tactile turn’s pen starts at $99. for a pen that seems pricey.
But you truly get what you pay for, and tactile turn has never offered to pay me to gas them up, I am still waiting for that. My first pen from them was one machine from copper. If you aren’t aware, copper is a pretty unique material to make pens from. Just like a penny, it gains a certain smell that you seem to love or hate, I enjoy it. It will also gain a patina, so over time it will look more and more unique. Copper also makes this one pen weigh about as much as 15 plastic ones.
Another interesting thing about their pens are their mechanisms for deploying the pen, they offer side click and bolt action. I chose a bolt action one because fidgeting with it makes me happy. Although I am sure the noise it makes drives some people in my life crazy..
I truly enjoy everything that makes my pen special, I would buy it over again if I needed to. I won’t ever need to though. I have had this pen for over a year and never come close to losing it. The sense of value it holds makes me want to use it and keep track of it. Not that I was wasting pens beforehand, but with the tactile turn pen I don’t think I will need to buy a plastic one again.
So this brings me to the ad I made! I had the idea that anything in life can come from the tip of a pen. Ideas are solidified with someone using a pen to get their ideas out. Creative minds use ink to bring works of art to life. Important moments in your life will take place at the end of a pen. School work, puzzles, doodling, clicking, inventing, drafting, writing novels, literally anything can be done. The connection between the mind and the world.
alas, my idea in a gif form. It is an animated picture of my pen.
I have never made a gif before, so I admit it is sort of clunky. I do like it though. I think it brings my idea to life and illustrates my concept.
I logged onto instagram to send it over to tactile turn to see if they liked it. Turns out I forgot that you can’t send a custom gif via messages on insta, so I figure some way to send it. Too bad tactile turn doesn’t accept messages…
Fast forward a week and I decided to just make a post with this image, a still shot of just the top portion, and I tagged them. I noticed 4 hours later that they liked the image and added it to their story. I do appreciate it, and I am excited that they liked it to some degree. I would have liked a message before they just posted it, but oh well, I literally just randomly sent them a gif.
To end, I think this may be my favorite thing I have made so far.
