Moglea Stationery

Moglea Couture Collection

Moglea is a tiny letterpress print shop run from a farmhouse in rural Iowa. They are creating some beautiful cards and stationery products as well as printing services and custom design and printing work.

Moglea letterquette

The Letterquette set was inspired by a vintage Eaton’s stationery set. The kits include notecards and envelopes.

Moglea notepads

They also created a series of notepads  for to do lists, grocery lists and assorted notes. Each pad is letterpress printed with artwork or an inspirational title in a casual script.

Moglea Mail Candy

Visit the Moglea shop on Etsy to purchase products. All the images are from their 2013 Lookbook.

Iowa Rest Stop, Stop #1 on The Well-Appointed Desk Summer Tour

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Greetings from The Well-Appointed Desk summer road trip! That’s right, I had to stop at the legendary I-80 rest stop in Iowa that features a giant pen nib out front.

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The site is designed to recognize the writing heritage of Iowa. From its universities to authors who’ve both lived in and traveled through Iowa, all writing is celebrated.

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Not just giant pen nibs are featured, the lights around the property are pencils and the “erasers” are lights!

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Each of the covered seating areas feature laser cut metal sheets with quotes. This is a Tennessee Williams quote.

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On the floor inside is a quote from Jack Kerouac from On The Road: “…between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”

Well worth the stop!

Video: Casey Neistat’s Hyper-Organized Studio

While I mostly focus on workspaces of the average modern office worker, today I thought I’d share this video I found of Casey Neistat’s highly-functional and slightly OCD video studio. This will also offset some of the complaints that I often collect and share workspaces that are too ideal, too “magazine”. This is a super cool space designed and organized exclusively to serve those who work in the space.

There are two other videos in the series as well, Part 2 and Part 3. So, go get your lunch, queue them up and enjoy!

(via Gizmodo)

Brevi Manu Stationery Shop

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Marvin Kleinmeier (AKA Bob Sala Photographie) recently photographed products for a German stationery shop “Brevi Manu” for a future online store and catalog. I see familiar products like Hardmuth, Koh-i-Noor, and Kaweco — all excellent German products — along with Palomino Blackwings and other beautiful products. Brevi Manu creates the O-Check products which will also be featured. Lovely products and fabulous photography.

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(via Rum Diary and Bob Sala Photographie. All photos by Marvin Kleinmeier.)

Link Love: Inks, RETRAKT and general pen love

Remind yourself to take a break throughout the day with this desktop wallpaper from How About Orange.
Remind yourself to take a break throughout the day with this desktop wallpaper from How About Orange.

The BIG NEWS:

Pens:

Inks:

The Great Gatsby in pencil
The Great Gatsby manuscript in pencil (via Pencil Revolution)

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