I have been following lots of office supply geeks and letter writers, artists and designers and I just thought I’d share some of my favorite Instagram photos from the last few weeks. Clockwise from top right: Uppercase’s Crafting Supplies, Pencil drawing of Sug-ums by Eabaddeley, Caran D’ache candy colored mechanical pencils found at Greer Chicago…
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Today’s a Good Pen Day!
Look what just arrived in the post today! New tools from JetPens to be reviewed this weekend. In the mix is the Ohto Ceramic Pencutter recommended by Donovan at the Letter Writers Alliance, two Pilot Juice 0.5 gel pens in leaf green and blue black, a Uniball Signo DX 0.38 in Pantone-Color-of-the-Year Jade and a…
Dennison Bookshelf Desk Set
I have been coveting one of the vintage Dennison bookshelf desk sets as long as I could remember but I could never find them complete or reasonably priced. If you’re not familiar with the Dennison bookshelf set, it is a vintage paperboard set of “books” each filled with a desk essential like paper clips, labels…
Swingline Low-Force 1-Hole Punch
I recently purchased a budget chrome-ish hole punch. Sometimes, I just need to punch a hole or two and, boy, was I ever disappointed. It tore the paper around the edges — even jsut one or two sheets of copy paper would get shredded. The punched-hole catcher would fly open at random intervals scattering hole-chads…
Clearly Ruled
This stunning lucite ruler features large Helvetica numbers screenprinted in alternating white and black and is 13″ long instead of the more common 12″ or 18″ lengths. Quite a unique piece. (via Type In Use with permission from the owner/photographer, Chris Purcell)
Shiny bright office bits
Kansas City is in the middle of an epic snow dump today. Everything is grey and blizzard-y so I thought some happy photos would be just the thing to cheer up we snowbound. (via Decor8 on flickr)
Lefty Sharpener
I grew up using right-handed sharpeners because I didn’t know there were any other kind. I got used to holding a pencil in my left hand, sharpener in my right and twisting the pencil away from me. A left-handed sharpener allows me to sharpen towards myself. I never seemed to get a consistent point twisting…