Our fine friends over at Fontoplumo just posted the opportunity to pre-order the new Lamy AL-Star in the special 2015 Copper Orange color. There is also a special copper orange ink cartridge set available. The fountain pen is 26,90 € (about $32.50US) and the ink cartridges are a pack of 5 for 1,95 € (about…
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Link Love: Resolve to do it all better in 2015
This week, I’ve decided to skip my traditional RSS feed and go in search of interesting sites and articles to help you achieve whatever paper-related goals you might have for 2015. Do you want to get more organized; improve your handwriting; write more letters or start journaling? Here’s this week’s new year’s edition of Link…
Crowd-Funded: Brauller Writing Tool
Have you heard about the new crowd-funded aluminum pen, the Brauller? It appears to be a pen designed to customize by slipping the refill unit out of one case and allowing the user to slide it into a different colored case while swapping out the grip and/or cap as well. The Brauller takes an assortment…
Review: Uni Power Tank 0.7 Smart Series Pen Review
The Uni Power Tank Smart Series 0.7 ($3.30) is another in the growing pressurized ballpoint market. The pressurized ink cartridges are designed to allow the pen to be used in severe weather, upside and in zero gravity though I’ve not had a lot of call to test the validity of these claims. The Fisher Space…
Fashionable Friday: Pantone Color of the Year 2015 – Marsala
Every year, for the past few years, color experts Pantone chooses what it thinks will be the color of the year. This year, they selected a deep wine-y red they call Marsala. I immediately thought of all the inky possibilities available in the burgundy, red-black and deep berry range. There were so many to choose…
Winner: Jet Pens Gift Certificate
Congrats to Jen, the winner of the Jet Pens $25 Gift Certificate giveaway. You have your own little “green” now! I’ll be emailing you directly today. Happy Holidays to all my wonderful readers. I wish I could give everyone of you a gift certificate. Maybe if these scratchy lotto tickets amount to anything… (scritch, scritch,…
Link Love: Another Time-Sucking Rabbit Hole
Fountain Pens: Kaweco Liliput Fireblue Fountain Pen Review (via Pen Addict) Nemosine Singularity (via Inklode) Lamy 2000 (via The Pencilcase Blog) Rotring 900 Fountain Pen (via Unroyal Warrant) Levenger True Writer Element Fountain Pen – B Nib (via Clicky Post) Kaweco Art Sport in Amber – Broad Nib (via Gourmet Pens) Pelikan M205 in demonstrator…