Decorate, label or annotate your own champagne with the Moët Rosé Impérial box set. It includes one bottle of champagne, two glasses and a gold paint pen (produced by Uni for Moët).
(via The Dieline)
Geo Cutout Desk Accessories
These white enameled desk accessories are both functional and affordable. And pretty darned handsome. The pencil cup is $6 and the desk organizer sells for $18. (via Urban Outfitters)
Copic Drawing Pen Review
The Copic Drawing Pen FO2 (0.2mm) is an interesting little tool. It is filled with waterproof india ink, though when tested I would say the ink is more water-resistant than waterproof, and is largely marketed as a tool for comic drawing or illustration. The pen is not refillable nor is there an ink window to be able to see how much ink you have left. But its basically a $5 fountain pen filled with almost “bulletproof” ink, so its a fairly decent value all things considered.
On my standard testing paper, Miquelrius medium flexible 300 grid paper book purchased from Barnes & Noble, the pen was not scratchy and performed pretty well. The steel nib did not have a ton of give but enough to vary line widths a little.
Overall, this wouldn’t necessarily be a pen that popped to mind if someone was asking me for recommendations for an inexpensive disposable fountain pen though I did find the line width to be much finer than Pilot Varsity and the water-resistant ink is a positive attribute for field work and envelopes.
(available from Jet Pens for $4.60. Also available in 0.1mm available in black and sepia)
Workspace Eye Candy
(via Flickr from MealisaB)
Help Fund The Typerwriter Book!
UPPERCASE books is attempting to crowdsource funds for a new book called The Typewriter: a Graphic History of the Beloved Machine. It will be a large , full color hardcover book with at least 224 pages filled with artifacts and graphics of the history of the typewriter. Funding options start at $5 but $45 or above will get you a copy of the book when its published.
I’ve purchased other books from Uppercase and they are stunning in quality, design and attention to detail. This publication is sure to be all that and a bag of chips. I will certainly be funding this project and I hope you can too!
Life of a Pencil Tote
Tim Easley created the Life of a Pencil Tote from his hilarious artwork. Grab one of these for $25 through his web site.
Markings Journal Review
Last week I picked up the Markings Blank Journal (10″x7.5″) from Target for a whopping $9.99. It boasts a black ribbon bookmark (sealed at the edge so it doesn’t fray, thankyouveddymuch), an accordion pocket in the back is a coordinating lemon yellow to match the front end papers and lightly lined, heavyweight paper stock printed with flowers in the corner. It has 252 pages which makes is a solid, dense book. The covers are printed paperboard and the spine is covered with black bookcloth. Pages appeared to be stitched and the book lays open flat.
The good news is that the paper performs flawlessly. My printer husband clocked it at at least 80lb of 100lb text weight and not one of my regular writing pens bled through to the back. Not even the Pilot Envelope Pen which is similar to a Sharpie for darkness and potential bleed-through.
This is the reverse side of the pen test page and you can almost see a little show-through of the envelope pen, but its very very faint.
For the price and quality, I highly recommend this notebook. The manufacturer is C.R. Gibson and if their other journals are of a similar quality, I will totally order some!