FromRubber Provide Free Consultation for Cartoon 3D Silicone Pen/Pencil Storage

Designed for the design and production with complex patterns, rich colors, safe and reliable silicone products

A cartoon silicone pen/pencil storage case has two jobs at once. On a shelf it has to read as a character a child wants to pick up; on a desk it has to hold pens, pencils, a sharpener and a rubber band without tipping over when it is carried by one ear. Most of the engineering behind those two jobs happens in the mould, not in the artwork file.

The three-dimensional shape comes from a closed silicone shell cut with deep undercuts at the ears, snout, hat or tail, so the character keeps its outline from the front, from the side and from above. Each colour is either shot as a separate insert laid into the cavity or printed on a moulded flat, and the raised features are kept matte: gloss flattens a small character at arm's length, while a soft matte surface keeps the light and shadow that make the shape readable.

Silicone does the rest of the work. It bends instead of cracking when the case is squeezed into a school bag, it does not rely on phthalate plasticisers for softness, it tolerates being washed, and it holds its colour where a painted plastic shell would chip at the edge. On a silicone pen/pencil storage item that children handle daily, the lid seat, the hinge and the small raised parts are the details we check first, because they are what fails after a term of use.

To quote a custom cartoon 3D silicone pen/pencil storage case we need: a 3D file or a sketch with front, side and top views; the length of the longest pencil the case must hold; the number of colours and which parts they land on; whether the lid is hinged, snap-fit or separate; and the packing format, because a character with ears needs a moulded tray rather than a flat bag.

Tooling, moulding, colour matching and print all run in our own plant, so a shape change and a colour change are handled by one team instead of being passed between a moulder and a decorator. Send the sketch and the pencil length, and we will come back with a mould split, a colour plan and a sample date.