note taking & writing
I am still contemplating of pulling together a series on “iconic stationery objects”. By now, I would at least have a pretty good list to start with. One pen that would surely make it onto this list is the Caran…
There is a lot of stationery products out there. Some of them are okay’ish. Many of them are truly great and beautiful. A few of them are iconic. As I write this, I am thinking: maybe I should, at some…
Makers Cabinet continues to delight us with its artefact approach to stationery – making items that truly tease apart mindsets on how to approach stationery: getting-things-done at the best possible cost-benefit-ratio vs. stationery as experience with a pinch of luxury…
The main writing implements that I personally use are what I call ‘the king and queen of writing’: fountain pens (ink) and (mechanical) pencils (graphite). There is little else I use – if you don’t count highlighters and the occasional…
The Lamy 2000 is my all time favourite pen. Ya’ll know that by now. I have reviewed the makrolon fountain pen, and I have done a comparative overview of makrolon vs. stainless steel. Since to me personally, fountain pens and…
Very likely, the Kaweco Sport is the most iconic pen model that Kaweco has in its lineup. And while the Sport is a very useful pocket pen, my personal favourite Kaweco model is the DIA2 with its fantastic 1920’s design.…
Apparently it has been about a year since I had a post about some pencil related stuff on these pages here – even though pencils are my second favourite writing implement, right after fountain pens. To be honest, I was…
When it comes to pocket pens, many people think of the Kaweco Sport straight away. Me included, for the longest time. For some reason, I have always overlooked the Kaweco Special S. Maybe because I thought it is made from…
Surely, the Palomino Blackwing pencil is one of the most iconic stationery items out there. Over a year ago, I’ve had a review of a tester-pack of all three standard Blackwing pencils on these pages here. These single pencils have been…
I have already reviewed the Kaweco Sport fountain pen range, but never really looked at a lot of other offerings that are to be found in the Sport-series. Well, the mechanical pencil is definitely a product worth looking at and…
DUX is a well-established German stationery brand since many years – and their brass sharpeners are certainly classics. Some models have accompanied me throughout my time as a school kid back then. That history, the nostalgia as well as the…