This week posts continue to round-up 2020 or set ambitious hopes for 2021. There’s Top 12, a Top 5, a 30-day challenge, 100 things, 21 things and lots of favorites from 2020.
What’s your magic number for 2020 or planning for 2021?
Pens:
- Sailor Pro Gear: Apre Ski (via An Unexpected Letter)
- Montblanc x Fritz Schimpf 149 The Expressive Flex Italic Nib Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
- An affordable ASC?! Introducing the ASC Studio Collection (via UK fountain pens)
Ink:
- My top 12 inks of 2020 and project review (via Nick Stewart’s FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
- Taccia Sharaku-akasakura (via Mountain of Ink)
- Taccia Pink Beige (via Mountain of Ink)
- 2020 in Inky Review Part 1: Personal Trends and Collection (via Looped Square)
- Blue Ink Comparison: Finding the Best True Blue Fountain Pen Ink (via Pen Chalet Blog)
- Diamine Marine Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Taccia Sharaku Akasakura (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Robert Oster Grey Seas (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
Pencils:
- Left-Handed Pencils (via The Pen Addict)
- E. Wolff & Sons – “Royal Sovereign” pencil (via Pencil Fodder)
- My Five Best Pencils for Everyday Writing, Five Years Later (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Limited TF Original Color Refills (via TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA)
- Scribble Journal Update (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- These Bookbinding Kits Will Help You Make Your Own Books (via My Modern Met)
- Bullet Journal Stuff That’s New. (via PENCIL REVOLUTION!)
- Bullet journal stencils weekly spread in the Archer and Olive Notebook (via All About Planners)
- My 2020 Journals and Indecision for 2021 Setup (via Stationery Nerd)
Art & Creativity:
- Design Is Not Art: The Work and Legacy of Massimo Vignelli (via My Modern Met)
- End of 2020 (via Apple-Pine)
- Ruth Carter’s Radical, Afrofuturist Fashion (via Hyperallergic)
- Extracurricular activities: creatives on the side-hustles which grew out of 2020 (via It’s Nice That)
- Forward Thinking: What 2021 looks like for the creative community (via It’s Nice That)
- Sketching review of 2020: Learning from what I achieved this year (via Liz Steel)
Other Interesting Things:
- A Stationary 2020 of Stationery (via The Pen Addict)
- 2020 Review (via TooManyPelikans)
- 2020 Yearly Goals (New Year’s Resolutions) (via Writing at Large)
- Year-End Recap: Favorite Posts from 2020 (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- 30-day “Practice and Suck Less” challenge (via Austin Kleon)
- 100 things that made my year (2020) (via Austin Kleon)
- 21 Things That Kept Me Going In 2020 (via Kottke.org)
- Queens of the Keyboard: How England’s Royal Typewriter Team Conquered Europe (But Not the World) (via oz.Typewriter)
- Astrophotographer Captures Enormous 209 Megapixel Image of the Moon (via My Modern Met)
- Previous Generations Sure Knew a Thing or Two About Style (via Design You Trust)
- USPS Will Issue New 2021 Stamps for Price Change (via USPS Newsroom)
- FREE “Bulletproof” New Year Goals Worksheet (via The Postman’s Knock)
- September 11, 2001: A Letter Carrier’s Story (via National Postal Museum)
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