(Sorry, I couldn’t resist a click bait title.) MIKE ROHDE!!!!!!!! If you are in Kansas City, and you read this blog, you are probably going to want to hop over to the KC Coffee & Design and register to attend the Friday lecture (FREE!) and the Saturday Sketchnotes Workshop ($75) coming at the end of…
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Fashionable Friday: Over the Rainbow
This Fashionable Friday was just way too much and there were way too many options to choose from. So many ink brands offer a huge rainbow of colors or many notebook manufacturers offer a rainbow of cover options (I’m looking at you, Rhodiarama and Leuchtturm1917) that it was hard to fit everything on one page.…
Link Love: Sharpeners, Ink, & Owl Ink
Pens: Uni-Ball Signo 307 (via My Pen Needs Ink) Pilot Futayaku Double Sided Brush Pen (via Pen Addict) Pelikan Souverän M805 Stresemann Anthracite (via FPQuest) Zebra Z-Grip Retractable Ball Point Pen Medium (via Office Supply Geek) Ink: Montblanc Meisterstück Blue Hour Twilight Blue (via East, West, Everywhere) Sheaffer Red (via Alt.Haven) Montblanc Meisterstuck Blue Hour…
Video: How It’s Made: Space Pens, Colored Pencils, Fountain Pens & More
I found a great collection of pen-and-pencil-centric How Its Made videos. Some you may seen but I thought this would make for great lunchtime viewing. Enjoy! This next video is how Aurora Fountain Pens are made: This is the manufacturing process of Caran d’Ache colored pencils: This next video is in Japanese subtitles with no…
The Desk Set: Cluttered but Clean
(From left to right, top to bottom: Better Homes & Gardens, Brownstoner, Jeremy Bittermann for The New York Times, Danielle de Lange.) I hope these spaces feel colorful and inspiring. So many of the images I find around the internet of workspaces lately have been stark white and barren and don’t feel like inviting workspaces.…
Fashionable Friday: Steampunk Patina
Grolier Ornamentali Journal (via Paperblanks) Retro 51 Tornado Metalsmith Roller Ball Pen “Lincoln” (via JetPens, Anderson Pens, Goldspot Pens and others) Fisher Space Pen .375 Caliber Cartridge Ballpoint Pen (via Pen Chalet) Fisher Bullet Pen in Titanium Copper Zirconium Nitride (via Goldspot Pens) Pilot Iroshizuku Mini Ink in Syo-ro Pine Tree Dew (Gray Turquoise) (via…
Pencil Review: Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood 348 HB
What can I say about the Caran d’Ache Swiss Wood 348 HB pencil? Its beautiful. It also costs $5.45 per pencil. Who pays $5.45 for a pencil? I do. Why? Curiosity. And its pretty. Aside: Caran d’Ache is known for producing some of the best colored pencils and watercolor pencils in the world that can…