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
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Posted by Rose Etherington
April 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
luvly touched
April 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
for all of the people out there who enjoy chewing on the end of their pencil, but hate that rubber eraser aftertaste…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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 : )
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Outstanding idea! Congratulations Nendo.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
April 5th, 2008 at 12:21 am
sweet and sharp at the same time. Just give me the 256 color tones in a box set and we are set to go.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:05 am
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.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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?
April 6th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I love it !!!
Jo Yana
http://deco-design.biz
April 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Smart & irresistible!
April 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Simply Brilliant! I probably just need 3. Dark, milk and white chocolate. But what’s stopping me from chewing those yummy pencils?? MMMM
April 6th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Jo Yana are you french? Do you know some chocolate design in Paris?
April 7th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
fantastic
April 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
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
April 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
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Jo Yana
Déco-Design
April 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I want one! It looks brilliant, cool stuff.
April 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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
April 15th, 2008 at 7:01 am
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?
May 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
brilliant touch! and i love the plate!
July 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am
i want some where can u get some can u send free samples
August 24th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
hmmm………. chocolate………
is there anywhere i can get free samples? say 100 cases?
November 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
plz get some t’s and c’s so i can use the chocolate pencil image
November 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Wouldn’t the pencils melt in your hand as you held them?
January 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
can be used to write?
January 21st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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!!!!!!!!
January 28th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
wow that is amazing i wouldnt mind a chocolate pencil i would be chewing it all day lol amazing
February 18th, 2009 at 1:24 am
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?
February 21st, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hello, somebody knows where they are available? I want to purchase them!
Thank you for reply
Axel
February 25th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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?????
March 23rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Im a Fan!! I love the idea!! I love chocolate! =)
April 1st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!lol i absolutly adorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrree CHOCOLATE!!!:) If they sell them in england… IMMMMMMMMMMMM GETTTTTTTTTTTINGGGGG LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!
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April 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
yumm, i would probably eat themmm!!!!
April 26th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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
September 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
i’ll take three thousand