Every week, I think I won’t have anything to write for the introduction of Link Love and then something will pop into my links, my life or my head at the last minute and I feel compelled to type a paragraph or two to share with you.
This week the link on Baum-Kuchen’s blog about education could not have been more perfectly timed. Next week, I begin my second semester as a college instructor, all while teaching remotely via Zoom. Even though I have yet to teach a college course in-person, I have previously worked with interns, new hires and fellow designers in-person. This has allowed me to look at their work — be it analog or digital — as they are working and provide input as needed. Teaching remotely, especially for art and design, is especially challenging both for the instructors and for the students. Reading Frido’s post about how he has changed and adjusted his teaching methods for remote teaching is invaluable to me.
Link of the Week:
- Digging Deeper and Re-inventing Education (via Baum-Kuchen Blog)
Pens:
- The 41 Best Pens for 2021: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens (via JetPens)
- Review: Wing Sung 3013 Vacuum Fountain Pen (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
- Fountain Pen Review: Leonardo Officina Italiana Momento Zero Positano Blue (via Rants of The Archer)
- ASC Studio Line Piston-Filler Fountain Pens for $195 (via Gourmet Pens)
- Exclusive Retro 51 Hubble Rollerball Pens (via Pen Chalet)
Ink:
- Winter Blues Ink Palettes (via Mountain of Ink)
- Taccia Hokusai-sabimidori (via Mountain of Ink)
- Van Dieman’s Ink Sample Review, Part 1 (via The Pen Addict)
- Monteverde ITF Blue Black (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- PenBBS #129 Xu Zhimo (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- News: Edelstein Ink of the Year 2021 – Golden Beryl (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- 2020 in Inky Review Part 2 – Market Trends (via The Looped Square)
Pencils:
- Uni Pro M9-552 Mechanical Pencil Review (via Writing at Large)
- Paint it Blue: The Caran d’Ache Yves Klein Blue Collection (via pencil talk)
- Happy Birthday Noris (via Bleistift)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Paper Sample Packs – A Year End Summary and New Announcements! (via Fountain Pen Love)
- 10 Useful printables to add to your planner or bullet journal (via All About Planners)
- A Korean Notebook Review Review with Pen Tests (via Notebook Stories)
- Last Call for “Old” Tomoe River? The Galen Leather Everyday Book (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Art & Creativity:
- Book Review: Techniques for Beginners (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- My 2021 sketching goals (via Liz Steel)
- 100-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge (via Austin Kleon)
- Review: XP-Pen Artist 22 (2nd gen) pen display (via Parka Blogs)
- A Guide to the Different Types of Calligraphy (Plus a Quiz) (via The Postman’s Knock)
Other Interesting Things:
- Photographs of flowers submerged underwater look like classic oil paintings (via Creative Boom)
- Knit to This: Bridgerton (via Modern Daily Knitting)
- Find A New Book With Internet Archive’s Online Library Explorer (via My Modern Met)
- 10 Jane Austen Facts You Never Knew About the Beloved Writer (via My Modern Met)
- Notable YA Covers of 2020 (via The Casual Optimist)
- The National Gallery of Art Acquires Quilts by the Women of Gee’s Bend (via Hyperallergic)
(Link Love artwork created in Adobe Illustrator by calligrapher and lettering artist, Chris Purcell)
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