Where is the border between sanity achieved through practicality and impulsive lust lived vicariously through bright, shiny things? I confess to having owned more stationery supplies in pencils, pens, inks and notebooks at various times than I was capable of using in my lifetime, unless modern science figures out how...
Baron Fig’s Unfinish: Bold Play or Askew 2?
There’s been a flurry of reviews on Baron Fig’s latest Confidant, the Unfinish. When I received my review copy from Baron Fig, I decided to wait a bit for the early reviewer fog to lift before sharing my take on their latest creative notebook twist. I have to admit I...
Log + Jotter’s New Twist on Notebook Subscriptions
There are many subscriptions out there for stationery goodies, but only a handful focus on just notebooks. The two well-known ones are Field Notes and Write Notepads, who both use a quarterly model to produce and distribute thematic pocket notebook three-packs. Dapper Notes also has a single, bi-monthly notebook subscription. A...
Der Zettelwirt! Great Paper & Innovative Form
The ever-generous Stuart Lennon of pocketnotebooks.co.uk dropped one of these little gems in a recent order and I’ve been enamored ever since playing with it. Before we get into the full story, let’s wrestle with that name: Der Zettelwirt. I typo’d my first translation attempt (zettlewirt) revealing “the warping host.”...
NYC Stationery Crawl
A few years back, I did a stationery crawl in New York City with a starting list of 26 places to visit. Lots of exhausting fun and a bit of sadness that many of the great stationary and art supply stores of yesteryear were gone. Click on the image below...
Green With Envy No More
At last fall’s Columbus Pen Show I visited the Franklin-Cristoph booth, my first time handling and playing with their fountain pens. I lusted after the emerald-green P66 and thought “someday.” Although the temptation was strong that day, especially after spending some time with their test pens, most notably the Masuyama...