Link of the Week: The second issue of Paper Planning Magazine was released this week. Its a digital repository for analog planning tools and this month’s issue includes an updated version of my Fountain Pens for Lefties article that I originally wrote for The Cramped, updated for the publication. Pens: Video: Nemosine Singularity (via Pen…
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Review: Denik Sketchbooks & Notebooks
Denik is an artist-designed notebook company that’s mission is to change the world with art. It’s doing this by contributing part of their profits to education and by paying the artists that create the cover designs a royalty fee for their designs. Last year, they helped to build the Denik Middle School in Zambougou, Mali. They are currently…
Ask The Desk: Broad D1s, Baron+Elastic, Neo Smartpen & Zebra F701
Khreyselle asked me some time ago: I’ve been struggling to find the perfect notebook to hold all of my graphic design sketches and notes. I have fallen in love with the paper quality of the Baron Fig/Code & Quill notebooks, but they are both missing the elastic closure and pocket/envelope feature that I would really…
Fashionable Friday: Inktober
This week, though I am a day or two late, I wanted to use the Inktober theme for Fashionable Friday. And why am I late? Because I am also participating in Inktober, of course so I am spending my spare minutes actually drawing instead of dawdling on the computer! The goal of Inktober is to…
Ink Review: Bookbinders Snake Ink Sampler Set
While at the San Fransisco Pen Show, I was able to acquire a coveted box of Bookbinders Snake Ink sampler bottles. It probably helped that I was working at the Anderson Pens table directly across from the Snake Ink table and the Andersons are the sole distributors of Bookbinders Snake Ink in the US presently. So……