I was contacted a couple of weeks ago to comment on the popularity of pen projects on Kickstarter, particularly topical since the latest Karas Kustoms project has been super-successful.. I never heard anything back so I wasn’t sure if the writer followed through with the piece but this morning, the article popped up and I was quoted. Crazy.
(via Tech Crunch)
I find office supplies inspiration everywhere. As I’ve posted before, Pinterest is a source of products, ideas and inspiration but I get just as much valuable information on Instagram and Twitter too. Yeah for other office supply lovers!
Pens and Pencils:
Paper:
Misc.:
Reader Teri asks,
“So, should pens and markers, etc be stored point up or point down?”
In my opinion, it differs depending on the pen.
I’ve found these are the methods that work for me but I’d love to hear other people’s opinions and comments.
I found this vintage metal Kodak film canister in my stash recently and wondered if it would hold some of my European short ink cartridges.
It does. Acutally, it easily holds 14 if you alternate directions. The cap screws on nicely and keeps the cartridges from getting knocked around in the bottom of my bag while keeping any potential leaking contained (not that I’ve ever had a cartridge leak but just in case). For my recent trip I wanted to have some ink options but didn’t want to deal with the potential mess of packing a bottle of ink. This method let me bring several different colors with no mess.
The canister also lets me play “ink roulette” since I filled it with several different colors but did not label anything so its anyone’s guess which color I’ll pull out.
I imagine newer plastic 35mm plastic canisters would also work as a good place to stash a few cartridges too. How do you carry spare cartridges?
Goulet Pens’ monthly Ink Drop for June 2013 was a mystery set called “What’s in a Name”. I wanted to follow-up with the names of the actual colors and my shame at guessing not even ONE of the colors. I am clearly not an ink color aficionado.
The idea behind the collection is that colors might be lovely even if they don’t quite align with their names. Think of them as Supreme Court Justices named Bubba and Barbie — they are more than their names might suggest.
For more details, check out the Ink Nouveau blog post for more details.
If you are left-handed, know a lefty or are just curious what I sound like, you might want to check out this week’s episode of the Pen Addict podcast. Can you believe they let me on the show again?
We discuss some of the challenges facing left-handed writers and wax rhapsodic about Field Notes — big surprise there.
If your desk, drawers and cubbies are filled with as many pens, pencils and various desk implements as mine, this quick and easy DIY project might be just the thing to corral all of them neatly. Using a shoebox covered with paper or cloth, fill it with various sized cradboard tubes from paper towels, bathroom paper or maililng tubes cut to different lengths and fill the box. Then insert your tools and voila! Tidy desk and you can see and access that massive pen collection easily.
(via Unconsumption)
