The Timo pen holder arrives flat and becomes a container. Press buttons at each corner fasten together, folding the 26.4 by 15 cm panel into a holder roughly 7 by 7 cm and 10 cm tall. Edge stitching runs around the perimeter, and the material is recycled polyester with a PU face containing 33 percent RCS certified recycled polyester.

Because it ships flat and weighs almost nothing, it is far cheaper to post than a rigid desk pot, and it can be sent in a standard envelope to a home address. That is a practical advantage for distributed teams. Assembled, it holds pens, scissors, cables or brushes and keeps a desk from collecting loose items.

The flat panel also gives an unusually generous branding surface before folding, so a logo can be placed to appear on the front face of the finished holder. Companies use it in home-office kits for remote staff, in onboarding boxes, as a desk gift for architecture and design clients, and as part of stationery sets at trade fairs where flat packing saves transport space.

Certified to the Recycled Claim Standard, which verifies recycled content across the supply chain, and supplied in black in a sleeve. MerchRepublic applies your logo, assembles gift sets on request and ships in bulk across the EU.