For the packaging alone, Aubin & Wills’ Mandville HB Pencils are totally worth the price of £9.50 for a pack of nine pencils. The diecut fox window peeks through to the gloss white pencils and makes me desperate to pry open the package and poor all the pencils out onto my desk. Does anyone else…

Oh, I think I’ve found my new paycheck-eating web site. Poppin creates clean, simple, brightly colored office supplies at reasonable prices. 12 pens for $6 in an array of colors, 10 legal pads for $16 and they are white with pale grey lines (no damned yellow pads, yippee!) They’ve got staplers, laptop sleeves, file folders…

[viddler id=8806658f w=545 h=307] The Uni-ball Kuru Toga mechanical pencil features a unique mechanism that rotates a degree every time you lift the pencil from the paper giving you a consistent point. The pencil is filled with “diamond infused” leads that are supposed to be harder and cleaner than standard leads. The grip isn’t soft…

This is a beautiful set of blank notebooks given as a promotional item by Ruby Receptionists. The first cover is embossed, the red is foil stamped with a flat orange and the last book is foil stamped with a gloss black (or letterpressed with black ink — hard to tell from the photo).  Notebooks were…