Planet Pins & The Moon

Push Pins. Hand-painted solar system stationery & hand cast concrete moons.

Overview

Hold a tiny piece of the universe in the palm of your hand with this unique set of planet push pins.

Our single Moon pins are cast by hand in fine-concrete. Their display-cases feature a tiny and super cute flag of the USA, as if pierced into the moons surface in it’s iconic position.

Add a bit of outer-space to your home & office space!

Planet Pins - Duncan Shotton Design Studio
Planet Pins - Duncan Shotton Design Studio

Launch

Originally funded on Kickstarter in 2017. We will be forever grateful to the 808 backers that helped make this project a reality.

Process (Planet Pins)

The 8 planet shapes are moulded in the UK over german-made, black steel pins, they’re then painstakingly brush painted by hand (by us!) and assembled into their serial-numbered, polished-acrylic display cases.

Short film documenting the making process and first bulk batch of Planet Pins (for Kickstarter fulfilment) below (or watch on vimeo here.)

Process (The Moon Pin)

Steel pins are over-cast in fine concrete by our friends at Qizhi in Taiwan before sending to Duncan Shotton Design Studio. We assemble them into their presentation cases.

We first met Himi & Yao from Qizhi whilst exhibiting alongside them at Designboom Mart during Tokyo Design Week, they are concrete craft experts! We knew we had to collaborate with them on this project.

Following a successful launch on kickstarter, we visited Qizhi's studio in Tainan City to document some of the process in a short film. Watch below or watch it on vimeo here.

small batch production volume of cast concrete 'the moon' push pins.
Team photo of Duncan, Nozomi, Yao and Himi at Qizhi studio
fine concrete product development process in a project box featuring lots of prototypes and samples

Safety

  • This product contains small, sharp parts. Not for children.
  • Please use with care and store out of the reach of children.
  • Please use pins for attaching paper materials to corkboard only.
  • Please apply force in parallel with the pin when inserting or removing pin to prevent the product from bending or breaking.

Specification (Planet Pins)

  • Size/weight (in display case) : 60 x 60 x 74 mm / 44g
  • Pins per pack : 8
  • Pin diameter : 0.85 mm
  • Average exposed pin length = 21.2 mm
  • Smallest pin-head diameter : 4.3 mm (Mercury)
  • Largest pin-head diameter : 12.25 mm (Jupiter)
  • Country of manufacture : England (Previously Japan)
  • Materials : ABS plastic (pin body), Nickel-plated Steel (pin), Acrylic (case cover), Paper (case base, label and info sheet)

Specification (The Moon Pin)

  • Size/weight (in display case) : 44 x 25 x 14 mm / 7g
  • Pins per pack : 1
  • Pin diameter : 0.85 mm
  • Pin-head diameter : 7.35 mm
  • Country of manufacture : England (Previously Japan)
  • Materials : Fine concrete (pin body), Nickel-plated Steel (pin), Styrene (case), Paper (label, info card)

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