Pencil shaving artwork by Marta Altés.
(via Adalou Vintage)
Fierzo Desk Organizer
This elegant Fierzo Desk Organizer holds notes, photos and other ephemera in its tensioned metal frame. The pale wood base can be used as a pen holder.
Small: 11.5″ W X 2″ D X 6.75″ H, $58.00
Large: 26″ W X 3.75″ D X 10.5″ H, $132.00
Design by Julie Richoz (ECAL), 2012.
By Alessi.
Materials: Beech, 18/10 stainless steel
Vintage office goodies from Life Japanese Stationery
For someone who loves the aesthetics and apparatus of the vintage office, the Life Japanese Stationery products will surely please. Life uses the same featherlight paper stock for their Airmail stationery that they used in 1946 when they opened their doors. They even have matching Airmail envelopes. Airmail paper pad is $12.95 AUD for 50 sheets and envelopes are $9.95 AUD for pack of 10.
If the Airmail stationery does not entice, what about the Typing Bond? The pad is standard A4 sized and includes 50 sheets. Oh, my growing collection of typewriters are going to enjoy stomping little letters across sheets of this fine paper! $8.95 AUD
And no office is complete without a couple steno pads for quick notes. These three lovely pads in subdued vintage colors. The green cover is the traditional Gregg ruled, the yellow with blue lettering is ruled and the yellow with red lettering is grid paper. Each sells for $12.95 AUD.
All products are currently available through Notemaker. Don’t forget to take advantage of the 10% discount at checkout by entering the code “WELLAPPDESK12” at checkout.
Daycraft Folding Tray
This cool little leatherette tray from Daycraft in Hong Kong is a deep teal blue on one side and a bright orange on the other. It ships flat and has snaps on the corner to fold up into a sort of origami bowl.
Snap from one side and the points face into the shallow bowl, snap from the other side and it makes points at the corner. Its a perfect size for your keys or the random bits on your desk.
Its a nice little catchall and is available in a small size (as shown) and a larger size in a couple different color combos. The small is $159HK (about $20 US). The large size is $209 HK which is about $30 US.
(via Daycraft)
Link Love: Lots of Pens with Video Bookends
(video of hand-lettered cards with the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues from Leandro Senna. It looks like it was lettered with an assortment of Pigma Micron and Faber-Castell PITT artist pens)
Fountain Pens
- Interchangeable Lamy Nibs (via East West Everywhere)
- Why Lamy Al-Star/Safari/Vista is a good First Fountain Pen (via Inktronics)
- An Economy TWSBI? (via FPGeeks)
- Five Best Budget Pens (via Lifehacker)
Pencils
- Vintage Sanford American Pencils (via Pencil Revolution)
- Mechanical pencil to wood pencil hardness equivalents (via JetPens)
Paper
- Why Handwriting Matters an excerpt from The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting by Philip Hensher (via The Guardian)
- A Letter Can Mean So Much (via Baker City Herald)
- Pair fashion with stationery (via William Arthur Sartorial Stationery)
Everything Else
- Three Writing Apps for the iPad (via Wired)
- Jonathan Gilmour’s daily carry (via Rhodia Drive)
(Evan Hecox paints with ink and dip pens for InCase. From The Arkitip Chronicles on Vimeo)
Updated: Fixed the Wired and Rhodia links. Sorry for the snafu! (10/10/12)
Ink Drop Reveal for October 2012
I’m so tickled with this month’s Goulet Pens Ink Drop ink sample subscription that I couldn’t wait to share. The colors this month are from one ink manufacturer called Scribal Work Shop and the series is called Cryptid. All the colors are inspired by mythical creatures. What could be more perfect for October?
I filled each one of my budget fountain pens with a color using my cartridge syringe filling method and tested them out. My Kaweco Student got the Kraken, my white Kaweco Sport got the Zhulong, the Ohto Tasche got the Nessie, my Muji was filled with Leviathan and my Kaweco Sport Guilloch was filled with the Siren color.
First I have to say that Leviathan, the green ink is one of my favorite greens thus far. Its not a kelly green but more of a greyish green. I love it! Siren ends up being a slightly midnight blue with a little greenish undertone. I’m not normally a fan of plain blue ink but I sort of like this one. Nessie is a muted purple which is also a great color. Zhulong is a red ink with a little orange undertone — it will not go pink on you. Kraken is a black but not a super dark black, at least not to my eyes — its more on the grey side.
Since doing the ink sample test, I’ve written several pages with each color and they all seem to be performing fairly well in each pen with an assortment of colors. I am using fine nib pens overall and my comment is that the inks seem a little dry. The dryness has worked to my advantage on my Leuchtturm 1917 pocket notebook which has fairly thin paper and I had no feathering or bleeding.
Goulet Pens posted an in-depth video about the Scribal colors on their blog, Ink Nouveau.
Each bottle of this ink is available for a mere $8 a bottle from Goulet Pens and I might buy them all.
Floating desk
Custom built desk by Jerad Foster of StudioBuild right here in Kansas City. Wonder if he’d make one for me?
(via DrummondHome)