There’s a certain kind of joy that happens when art comes through with Engineering.
Endless Stationery — the Chennai-based stationery design company behind last year’s wildly successful Phantom retractable fountain pen (the world’s biggest fountain pen Kickstarter of 2024) — has teamed up with the 3D-printing wizards at Arclayer to push that joy to its limit.
Their new project, MAZE Pens, isn’t just another fountain pen launch. It’s an explorative experiment in what happens when you turn the inside of a pen into the star of the show. Instead of hiding ink channels deep in the barrel, Endless and Arclayer have sculpted them into artful pathways, printed in high-clarity SLA resin and post-processed to gleam like a jewel. The result is a pen that looks alive — ink twisting and drifting through a transparent, three-dimensional maze as you write.
Each MAZE pattern (Five of them!) feels like its own personality carved into light. You can run it as a classic eyedropper or go full engineering-nerd with the Japanese eyedropper shut-off system for leak-proof travel. And yes: shimmering inks look beautiful in these barrels — in the best way possible.
Endless built Phantom with thousands of backers cheering from around the world. With MAZE, they’re swinging even harder — blending engineering, sculpture, and pure creative mischief into something the fountain-pen world hasn’t quite seen before.
If you’ve ever wished your pen had a little more soul, a little more strangeness, a little more why the hell not — this is the one to get. Head on to their Kickstarter page and grab yourself one!
My thanks to Endless Stationery and Arclayer for sponsoring The Pen Addict this week.
