Context

Although I was going with a more simple idea of creating a pencil holder,  I wanted to make the holder fun and personalized. In terms of precedent projects, there is a pencil holder in the shape or form of pretty much anything you can imagine. Since a pencil holder is such a common and almost necessary object, people have pencil holders in any sort of design you can think of.  

In order to personalize my holder though, I pondered upon my interests and how they could fit into my design. I love games, particularly board games. So, I decided that it would be really fun to create a pencil holder in the shape of a dice - with the 6-side of the dice holding all my pens/pencils, and the other 5 sides just being in the design of a dice.  Below are some sketches of my design. 

Below is an inspiration I found for my product online.