Ask The Desk: Manager’s Planner & Road Tripping Young Artist

Brandon asks: Long time reader and I wanted your opinion on something. I am a full time student and I am about to start a job as a manager. Unfortunately, my organizational skills are nonexistent! Do you have a suggestion on a planner that can help me get on track?. Brandon, I conferred with our…

Giveaway: Agendio Gift E-Card

Giveaway: Agendio Gift E-Card

The folks over at Agendio have updated their web site, added an awesome video to help show how to your own custom Agendio and generally upped their agenda-making game. There are the original hard-covered planners as well as the exposed spiral-covered planners with loads of cover options. The hard-cover planners now offer charms for the…

New Products: Inkello Letterpress

New Products: Inkello Letterpress

A couple weeks ago I got a chance to purchase a whole bunch of products from Inkello Letterpress in Lawrence, KS. And now I can share my finds with you. Christine M. Schneider is an illustrator and designer running creating beautiful paper goods in her print shop when she’s not illustrating children’s books and art…

Review: NockCo Seed Case

Review: NockCo Seed Case

Everyone in the pen and planner community have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the NockCo Seed cases. Between the production delays and hurricanes, we had to wait as patiently as 8-year-olds going to Disney, which is to say not very patiently. But finally the A6 cases are here just in time for the arrival…

Planner Preview: Strickplaner Planner for Knitters

Back in July, in a newsy post, Ana highlighted that a knitting pattern designer and an illustrator had teamed up to develop a planner for knitters, the Strickplaner (€ 18.90).  I had intended to order one, but then the designer was kind enough to send a copy of the planner to Ana, and she handed…