Link Love: Paper Phone? Isn’t that a notebook?

First, this week, we are shamelessly plugging Jesi’s sister and her nieces Kickstarter project. Because we all need a chance to scare away bad dreams and make our dreams of entrepreneurship a reality. Nobody tell Emma and her little sister what a drag order fulfillment and logistics can be, okay? Of course, she’s going to be the only kid in school who can actually use logistics in a sentence.

• Zero the Dream Hero Doll and Book (via Kickstarter)

And then there’s this:

• google launches tools for digital wellbeing including a ‘paper phone’ (via Design Boom)
• Paper paper everywhere (via Bleistift)

While I appreciate that even Google recognizes that we all spend too much time checking our phones for input and scrolling endlessly through updates on Instagram, Reddit, Facebook or Twitter… a paper phone? Isn’t that just a notebook? C’mon!

Pens:

• Sailor Lecoule Steel Nib Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
• Video-Review: Graf von Faber-Castell Guilloche  (via Scrively
• The Best Pastel Highlighters (via JetPens)
• 10 More Things You Need to Know About Fountain Pens (via Rediscover Analog)
• The Grovemade Pen & Pen Stand (via Tools and Toys)

Ink:

• Toucan Aqua Ink Review (via Gourmet Pens)
• Vinta Inks – Range Swatch Test (via FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• In Praise of Whisky (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Ink Review: Pennonia Vizlang (Vízláng) (via Macchiato Man)
• Review #886: KWZ V-Dream (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ink Review #879: Robert Oster Vitstyle Red Bear (via Mountain of Ink)
• Pencils:
• I wish there was a pencil show (via pencil talk)
• Khan you dig it? (via Polar Pencil Pusher)

Notebooks & Paper:

• The Notebook (via From the Pen Cup)
• Leuchtturm 1917 Master A4+ Notebook. (via Pencil Revolution)
• Midori MD Cotton Notebook Review (via Fountain Pen Love)
• A Good Company Notebook Review (via Notebook Stories)
• 2020 Nolty Diaries In Stock at Kinokuniya NYC (via Notebook Stories)
• Why You Need to Read Ryder Carroll’s The Bullet Journal Method (via Rediscover Analog)
• Muriel Spark’s Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)

Art & Creativity:

• Art on fruit stickers (via Flow Magazine)
• Making a Life: Happy Publication Day! (via Mason-Dixon Knitting)
• This Artist Turns Picasso’s Portraits Into Fantastic 3D Sculptures (via Design You Trust)
• More on Betye Saar’s Sketchbooks (via Notebook Stories)
• The Mini Palette v2 (2019) from Peggy Wong (via Parka Blogs)
• Vintage Colored Pencils: Design Watercolor (Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Learn How the Rainbow Was Reshuffled in Color Wheel History (via My Modern Met)

Other Interesting Things:

• USPS 2020 Stamp Preview (via Letter Writers Alliance)
• Time, space, and materials (via Austin Kleon)
• Stop reading that book (via Flow Magazine)
• Hellvetica typeface terrifies graphic designers with blood-curdling kerning (via It’s Nice That)