你的笔出卖了你
What Does Your Choice of Pen Say About You?

由专筑网李韧，韩平编译

建筑师都很有品位，他们喜欢生活中的一切美好事物，当让他们每天都需要用到的笔也不例外。人们总说：“不要以貌取人。”但是我们仍然可以通过观察每位建筑师所使用的笔来判断这位建筑师的风格与习惯。

钢笔是每个建筑师最犀利的武器，它能够将我们的思维直接地表达出来。在当前这个数字时代，钢笔似乎有些神圣，因为我们能够回到最简单原始的创作过程。通过多年的尝试，我们发现，每个人选择的钢笔类型也能反映其性格与特点。

Architects are people of great taste, who enjoy the finer things in life – especially when it comes to pens. The saying goes: ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, but inevitably we find ourselves judging an architect by their choice of pen. It’s easy to do when your colleague decides to grab the nearest biro to sketch a quick diagram, leaving you to squirm as you sit and watch it indent the paper.
Pens are powerful tools for architects, that harness our thoughts and ideas into potential three-dimensional structures. In the age of the digital world, pens have become sacred, grounding us back to the simple pleasure of drawing to begin the creative process. After years of trying and testing all the different writing instruments out there, we eventually find the one which can say a lot more about ourselves than you may think.

传统吸墨钢笔

一些成熟聪明的前辈通常会指导缺乏经验的后辈同事们，在一个项目中该如何手绘平面，或在CAD的普及之后，建筑又是如何失去其原有的魔幻魅力。办公室里的每个人都知道这些前辈们习惯使用传统吸墨钢笔，因为他们会不断地向你普及这些经验。

自动铅笔

这支笔并不具有太多技术特征，但它却是许多建筑师的首要选择。对于极其忙碌的建筑师来说，自动铅笔非常方便，因为不需要花太多的时间去削笔，而且它们通常拿起来就能直接上手，并且在出现错误时还能擦除重新画。

The Fountain Pen
Mature and intelligent individuals that are usually found informing the ‘lesser’ experienced co-workers of tales about when plans were made on drawing boards and how architecture has lost its magic since the introduction of CAD. Everyone in the office knows they use a fountain pen because they just don’t let you forget it.

The Mechanical Pencil
It may not technically be a pen, but it is many architects’ weapon of choice. As extremely busy individuals, mechanical pencil users don’t have the time or patience for a sharpener so instead opt for a drawing implement that allows them to constantly create and adapt plans with the added security of being able to erase any mistakes.

极细针管笔

0.05针管笔通常是完美主义者的选择。他们的办公桌看上去无可挑剔，这也正如他们的速写本般异常精致。习惯于运用极细针管笔的人们常常目标明确，并且他们对于自己的设计能力十分自信。

“流畅型”钢笔

这类人在办公室头脑风暴时能够提出几十种完全不同的设计方案，他们的大脑如同机器般运转自如，甚至有时到了深夜他们还在自己的手绘本上记录自己的灵感构思。

圆珠笔

圆珠笔虽然廉价，但它有时候确实会给你带来意想不到的创意灵感，选择使用圆珠笔的设计师都有着很高的工作效率，他们常常站在我们身后看着我们拿出那些对于他们来说轻而易举的设计作品。

制图笔收集者

有的时候，仅仅一支钢笔对许多设计师来说远远不够。他们有着一个大笔筒，里面屯着不同细度与硬度的笔，只是有的时候，可能这个笔筒会被整个办公室所共用。这类人通常考虑周到，装备齐全，并且随时接受与记录新想法。

The 0.05 Fineliner
A perfectionist at heart to the very last detail of the drainpipe and lintels. Their desks are usually impeccably organised, much like their sketchbooks which are brimming full of observations on the architectural world. Users of thess thin nib pens have their lives together and are quietly confident about their skill as a designer.

The ‘Free-Flowing’ Pen
The creative of the office that walks into meetings with about twenty different options for a particular scheme. Their brains can never switch off and they are often found up at 2am furiously scribbling into a moleskine notebook their latest idea that has come to them in the middle of the night.

The Biro
*Insert eye-roll* Biros are cheap and cheerful, but are they really going to present you as creative, forward-thinking designer of buildings? Although biro users are usually quite practical and smug as they stand back and watch the rest of us fork out a small fortune on something that costs them basically nothing.

The Collection of Pigment Liners
One pen just isn’t enough for some. Their pencil case is the size of their arm, hoarding all the different nib sizes and shades of grey, which are unfortunately taken advantage of and lent out to all the co-worker if the office gets wise to it. These people are always well equipped and ready for any new idea or drawing.

软头笔

这类建筑师通常对自己的设计作品非常自信。他们甚至可以在很短的时间内完成一幅让你叹为观止的酷炫概念草图。

The Brush Pen
Architects who use this pen are well kept individuals who take pride and care in their creations. They can knock out a beautiful concept sketch in seconds, leaving you in awe of their skill as both an architect and artist.

记号笔


这大概是最不实用的笔了，尤其是其宽达几毫米的笔尖。相比起设计中的小细节，习惯于使用记号笔的人更加注重方案的概念性。

The Marker Pen
One of the least practical pen on the least, especially when the tip is several millimetres wide. Those who endorse this pen are more conceptual in their approach, focusing on the general form of the building compared with the smaller details.


出处：本文译自www.archdaily.com/，转载请注明出处。