Tuesday while I was walking to my car, precariously balancing a travel mug, my bag and trying to read Twitter all at the same time, my hand slipped and my precious communication device ended up flat on its back on the concrete parking lot floor. As it hit, I heard a distinctly crunchy sound. When…
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Pilot Prera Review
The Pilot Prera is a bit of a budget fountain pen celebrity and I finally broke down and bought one. Its a Japanese steel nib pen with a cartridge filling system though there’s a cartridge converter available for it as well. Don’t tease, I had to have the lime green one. The Japanese nib sizes…
Link Love: Miscellany of Love
Pencils: KUM sharpener for triangular pencils (via Pencil Talk) Q&A for pencils (via Pencil Talk) Pens: Orange you gonna check out this daily carry? (via Gourmet Pens) Reproduction replacement parts for Parker 51 (via FPGeeks) Lamy Joy Calligraphic Review (via Pen Addict) Misc: A visual tutorial for improving penmanship (via imperi on Instagram) Alex Witte…
Daycraft Diary, Cookie Bookie, Guteberg Notebook and a little surprise
Daycraft is a Hong Kong based stationery producer that offers a range of notebooks, diaries and accessory. One of the most notable things is the array of products with contrasting edging. This is the Animaland Elephant Diary, a small diary for 2012 that measures 4.25″x6″. It starts in September 2011 and goes through the end…
Luxe iPhone Steel cover
This stainless steel and enamel L4 iPhone plate gives your mobile phone the look of a stylish vintage camera while protecting it. $24 from Luxe Plates.
Tape Dispensers
(Clockwise from top left: Wooden Tape Holder £27.50 from Present + Correct, The Heavyweight from Black + Blum $50, Squirreled Away Tape Dispenser from Anthropologie $24 and Tape Cutter bookends $47.04)
And now for something completely different…
This is a nib holder from Tachikawa Model 40 via Jet Pens. It is listed as a tool for comic and manga artists but if you’ve ever wanted to experiment with flexible nibs for calligraphy or more decorative writing and line weights, this nib holder is a great option. The Tachikawa is designed with two…