Japanese designers Nendo have created chocolate pencils for Tokyo patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu.
The pencils come with a sharpener so chocolate shavings can be grated on top of pastries and desserts.
Here’s a bit of text from Nendo:
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Chocolate-pencils is a collaboration with patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu, the mastermind behind popular dessert shops like Mont St. Claire and Le Chocolat de H. Tsujiguchi created a new dessert based on his impression of Nendo after conversations with us, and we designed new tableware for them.
We wanted our plates to show off the beauty of meals and desserts like a painting on a canvas. Based on this idea, our “chocolate pencils” come in a number of cocoa blends that vary in intensity, and chocophiles can use the special “pencil sharpener” that comes with our plate to grate chocolate onto their dessert.
Pencil filings are usually the unwanted remains of sharpening a pencil but in this case they’re the star!
Photographs by H-STYLE/FG-MUSASHI
luvly touched
for all of the people out there who enjoy chewing on the end of their pencil, but hate that rubber eraser aftertaste…
Sorry but I don’t see the “creative” link between sharpening pencils and a chocolate dessert degustation ?
The gesture seems too laborious to me and conjures up images of “office life” paper clips, photocopies etc.
Maybe Crayons would have been a more fun starting point : )
Outstanding idea! Congratulations Nendo.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
sweet and sharp at the same time. Just give me the 256 color tones in a box set and we are set to go.
Sorry, it conjures up images of lead pencils and I’m not sure I can stomach this. And like what greg said, the ‘link’ is a little far-fetched. Nevertheless, Nendo still stands as one of the most innovative designers at the moment.
Fast design ?… did you see the sketches on nendo site?
starck works like this=> see wood cake for Lenotre…1 mn 1 idea…ok other client?
I love it !!!
Jo Yana
http://deco-design.biz
Smart & irresistible!
Simply Brilliant! I probably just need 3. Dark, milk and white chocolate. But what’s stopping me from chewing those yummy pencils?? MMMM
Jo Yana are you french? Do you know some chocolate design in Paris?
fantastic
it’s a process – transferred and applied to another material, in this case food.
and it’s a link between material processes for two different purposes… of chocolate shavings as decoration which has been done for years and of creating those shavings by sharpening a stick/otherwise recognised as a pencil.
Clever stuff, simple reference. nicely done.
yum
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Jo Yana
Déco-Design
I want one! It looks brilliant, cool stuff.
when I heard chocolate pencils I thought that they’re gonna be half real half chocolate, than it will be helpful in learning: I always eat pencils while learning so chocolate would be energyzing and I wouldn’t eat rubber…but anyway mniam mniam
Chocolate cigarettes, chocolate crayons, and now chocolate pencils. Such a cool idea although in practice I’m not sure how functional. For any one who’s ever shaved chocolate before you’d know how much of chore it is to do so. Thus a very clever design for participating chocolate enthusiasts. You’d need cold hands when handling them though otherwise ‘hello chocolate-pencil-fondue’ … bit like a leaking pen really! Hmm perhaps half the fun?
brilliant touch! and i love the plate!
i want some where can u get some can u send free samples
hmmm………. chocolate………
is there anywhere i can get free samples? say 100 cases?
plz get some t’s and c’s so i can use the chocolate pencil image
Wouldn’t the pencils melt in your hand as you held them?
can be used to write?
That is the frackingest awesome thing i have ever seen in my entire life!!!!!!! i mean you could just be sittin in class and be like hey im hungry then take a bite out of my pencil!!!!!!!!
wow that is amazing i wouldnt mind a chocolate pencil i would be chewing it all day lol amazing
Yummy! They sound really cool! I mean, most people chew their erasers in class, but only a select few could chew chocolate in class! Can you draw with them, too?
Hello, somebody knows where they are available? I want to purchase them!
Thank you for reply
Axel
thats cooooooooooooooool :) im sure ALL choccy lovers will jump at the chance to have chocolate pencils!!!! i certainly will does anybody know where you can buy them?????
Im a Fan!! I love the idea!! I love chocolate! =)
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!lol i absolutly adorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrree CHOCOLATE!!!:) If they sell them in england… IMMMMMMMMMMMM GETTTTTTTTTTTINGGGGG LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!
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yumm, i would probably eat themmm!!!!
I luv the idea, can u plz tell me where to get them and how much r they coz my mum luvs chocolate desserts and she luvs making them and these would be gr8 4 her bday prezzie. Thnx. xoxoxox
i’ll take three thousand
Hum soo delicously romantic :) feel like writing and writing and…
That’ll be so handy! It’ll be much easier to make chocolate shavings. I hate knifes, what if I cut myself?
I am super late . . . but this is fantastic . . . Nendo strikes again!
Nice! I like to chew pencils (?) but this… Yummy!:D
YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LOOK INTO MAKING EDIBLE PAPER.THOSE LOOK SODA-LICIOUS!
They already do edible paper…?
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/edible-wafer-paper/F/pr…
yummy i will be like in the middle of the class .
i need chocolate hey i can eat my pencil even though it sounds wrong
I love the "novelty"of the chocolate pencils– but I see the practicality too– I bake– alot, and I don't always employ the latest technologically advanced cooking utensils- so I get out my "rough" on the knuckles grater and end up with 1020 small chunks of choclate at the end. I think placing dessert on the table and allowing everyone to chose their chocolate and grate themselves is "funky" and would add a sweet little twist to any dessert experience.