I may have missed Left Handers’ Day but I’m not going to miss World Photography Day. Check out PhotoJojo’s roundup of great ways to celebrate and keep on shooting!
Tomorrow’s World Photography Day!
World Photography Day — Ideas & Inspiration to Celebrate All Things Photo
Photo by Natsumi Hayashi
Laughing Elephant has created these vintage reproduction French cahiers. Each notebook has the classic look of a vintage composition notebook with cardstock covers with rounded corners. There are eleven different designs in their line of French Notebooks, these are just two of the designs. Inside each book is warm white paper with pale sepia lines.
Each book has just 20 pages but the paper has nice tooth and would be the perfect size for a special project or short-trip, travel journal.
Under my fine writing instruments test, everything performed pretty well except for my Kaweco Sport fountain pen which splined along the fibers in the paper. I suspect its a cotton blend so other tools worked great and felt great. The fountain pens was a bit of a bummer.
The best thing is there is almost no bleed-through, even with a Sharpie so with the average ballpoint or rollerball, you could easily use both sides of the paper getting the most mileage out of your 20 pages. Each book is just $3.95 so its easy to buy more than one and share.
This is the most useful product box I’ve seen in awhile. I’m floored at the amount of thought and ingenuity that went into making the packaging useable and functional for these old pencil sets. The snap closure with leatherette band keeps the pencils from escaping inside a bag or desk drawer.
Not to mention that I was tickled to find an old set of watercolor pencils in such good shape.
The box also folds open to act as a stand to see the pencils and keep them within reach.
I’d be willing to pay an extra couple of dollars for manufacturers to improve product packaging to this level of usability and functionality. Tin boxes that can be reused, paperboard that can double as a stand like this, anything but cheap vacuform or cellophane!
A mix of vintage woods and pops of bright red. If you just need a place to plop your laptop, this is just about all the modern workspace needs.
(via beinggeekchic and Unplggd)
I love the laptop stand that makes it look like its hovering above the desk.
via alvhem makleri
Found on a recent thrift outing, these two unused pocket notebooks. Stitch bound and filled with lightly lined paper. One had written on the over a name and the word “Private” in pencil. I tried to photograph it clearly but it was as hard to read as it is in person.
