The Clairefontaine Back To Basics Le Carnet 1951 notebooks are cardstock-covered and a cahier style. The covers are flexible cardstock, perfect for folding open or back as needed. This book is 5.8″ x 8.3″ and contains 48-pages. It’s staple-bound in two places and is filled with 90 gsm paper. They remind me of composition notebooks.…
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Ohto Graphic Liner 0.3
I’d been hearing a lot of praise about the humble-looking Ohto Graphic Liner 0.3. For the descriptions and the look of the pen, I was expecting something that performed similarly to the Pilot Precise V5. The size, smooth barrel and long flat clip makes it look quite similar to the V5 and all descriptions suggest…
Palomino Blackwing Pearl Review
Let’s just say that I’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new Blackwing Pearl from Palomino since I saw the announcement posts over on Timberlines. The Pearl is described as a pencil that is between the “firm and smooth” of the Palomino Blackwing 602 and the “soft and smooth” of the original Palomino Blackwing…
Podcast Follow-Up: Notebooks for Fountain Pens
Yesterday, on The Pen Addict podcast, we talked a bit about notebooks for fountain pens and I wanted to follow-up and include a few other books that didn’t get mentioned. This is what I’ve currently been using, from the bottom to the top (as they appear in the photo. I’m not ranking them): Miquelrius Grid…
The Pen Addict Podcast: Episode 54 “The Chair at the Desk”
This week I had the honor of being a guest on the premier pen-and-paper geek podcast, The Pen Addict, hosted by Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley. They were super nice to let me come on the show and talk about all kinds of geeky pen stuff. If you haven’t heard the show before, you can…
Tunes for the workaday
Sometimes all you need to get you through the day is a new song. ISO50 has built sixteen playlists filled with new songs and old favorites. Plug in your headphones and jam out. (via ISO50)
Urban Outfitters Offices
While researching for the Free People office post the other day, I also found images of the neighboring Urban Outfitters office space and thought it would be fun to share this space as well. This is part of the old Philadelphia shipbuilding yard, a series of massive old buildings with some…