Clearly Ruled

This stunning lucite ruler features large Helvetica numbers screenprinted in alternating white and black and is 13″ long instead of the more common 12″ or 18″ lengths. Quite a unique piece. (via Type In Use with permission from the owner/photographer, Chris Purcell)

Specialty Printable Papers

Are you working on a digital project that you might need to sketch out on paper? Geekchix collected an assortment of iPhone templates, wireframing templates, “paper browsers” and grid templates that can be downloaded and printed out as needed. There are also links to pre-printed sketchbooks specifically useful for planning your next digital project. See?…

Word Notebook Winners!

Let’s get right to the winners: The first winner is #2 and our letter loving friend, Derrick Dodson and he is getting the orange book. The second winner is the dark lord of pens, Ivan R and I’ll be sending him the camo version. Expect an email soon so you can send me your address.…

Washable Blues

I was thumbing through the Miquelrius medium flexible 300 grid paper book I use for all my pen and ink testing, when I stumbled across this comparison between the vintage Sheaffer Scrip Washable Blue and the more recent Diamine Washable Blue. I think the Sheaffer Scrip Blue looks more like a blue-black and the Diamine…

Thumbtack Upgrade

You never know where inspiration might strike. Modcloth had a great idea for jazzing up those plain silver or brass thumbtacks. Grab some old nail polish colors and paint those caps to be something that you want to see rather than something you’re trying to ignore. A tip for paint thumb tacks is to pierce…