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Pens:

• Sailor Compass! (via Anderson Pens Blog)
• Sailor Shikiori Fountain Pen Ink Cartridges Make Great Gifts! Also, They’re Very Adorable. (via Gourmet Pens)
• Galen Leather Co. x Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Review: Opus 88 Flow Fountain Pen (via The Pencilcase Blog)
• The Faber-Castell Grip 2011 Calligraphy Gift Set: A Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Traveler’s Company Brass Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• The Father, the Son, and the Anonymous Ghost (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• Stabilo Boss Pastel Highlighters and Notes on Highlighting (via Writing at Large)
• Another look at the Onoto Magna: Victory and Shakespeare pinstripes (via UK fountain pens)
• IndiGraph Fountain Pen – Kickstarter Edition (via dapprman)

Ink:

• Diamine Twilight (via Mountain of Ink)
• Robert Oster Crocodile Green (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Organics Studio Elements Manganese Blue Black (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Review: PaperMate EverSharp (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Review: Rotring Visuclick 0.7 Mechanical Pencil (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)

Notebooks & Paper:

• How to make digital planners or notebooks in Microsoft PowerPoint (via All About Planners)
• Philofaxy: Filofax ‘All in One’ 1987 Brochure (via Philofaxy)
  Digital Planner versus Paper Planner: Which is right for you? (Pros & Cons) (via All About Planners)
• Baron Fig Do Work Journal Review. (via The Finer Point)
• Thinkers Notebook Review Fountain Pen Friendly (via Notebook Stories)
• High Snobiety on Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)

Art & Creativity:

• Embroidery Capsule Prototype (via Writing at Large)
• Making it Look Easy (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Book Review: How to Think When You Draw Volume 3 (via Parka Blogs)
• Current Main Watercolor Palette (via Apple-Pine)
• Some Brush Pens with Color Ink (via RozWoundUp)
• Current Gouache Palette (via Apple-Pine)
• I started a new sketchbook! (via Apple-Pine)
• Review: Global Handbook Travelogue Sketchbook (via Liz Steel)
• Review: Strathmore Watercolor Travel Journal (300gsm 100% cotton) (via Parka Blogs)

Black Lives Matter:

• Caesar the “No Drama Llama” Attends Protests in Portland, Gives Hugs (via My Modern Met)
• Cards for Humanity is an online tool to help designers overcome unconscious bias (via Its Nice That)
• The Native Americans Whose Activism Made DC’s Football Team Change Its Name (via Hyperallergic)
• A Virtual Museum Preserves Black Lives Matter Protest Art (via Hyperallergic)
• AfroSurf: Forget blonde hair and blue eyes, here’s the untold story of African surf culture (via Creative Boom)
• Amy Sherald’s Portrait of Breonna Taylor for Vanity Fair (via Kottke.org)
• Raising a Storm in a Typewriter: Flannery O’Connor and Racism (via oz.Typewriter)

Coronavirus/COVID-19-related:

• COVID-19’s Impact On Pelikan’s Operations (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
• 17th Century Italian Wine Windows, Which Were Used During the Plague, Are Open Again Due to The Coronavirus Pandemic (via Design You Trust)
• 10-Year-Old’s Covid Newspaper typed on a Brother Portable Typewriter (via oz.Typewriter)

Other Interesting Things:

• Red Lipstick and a Woman’s Right to Vote (via Bobby Pin Blog)
• Katsumi Hayakawa’s Congested Cities Are Constructed with Scrupulously Cut Paper Buildings (via Colossal)
• DIY LEGO Project Transformed a Kitchen Peninsula Brick by Brick (via My Modern Met)
• Books with unusual but brilliant structures (via Austin Kleon)
• New goodies from Minä Perhonen (via LoopKnitlounge)
• Made of Cheese and Quikrete (via Field Notes)
• Gear Guide: Vlogging Essentials Kit (via Tools and Toys)

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