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…
J. Herbin is pretty well known for the wonderful inks that they are making – if you never came across those, they are for sure worth to check them out. A while back, they also launched a more premium stationery…
The Lamy 2000 is my all-time favourite pen. To regular viewers of these pages here, this is no secret. By now, I have reviewed almost the whole lineup of writing instruments from the series: the fountain pen in different nib…
As I have written in my review of the Aurora 88 (which is already 1.5 years ago – wow, time flies!), Italian pens often fall through my review grid – likely as a bit of a result of selection bias.…
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…
Here comes yet another episode of the “Comparative Overview-Series“, bringing you side-by-side in-depth comparisons of pens that you likely would like to just see like that: side-by-side. The episode right here does focus on two retractable Lamy pens. On the…
The Lamy 2000 is an icon of the stationery world. A Bauhaus design classic. And my all-time favourite fountain pen. Since years. Find an in-depth review of the Lamy 2000 here. Find a comparative review of the Lamy 2000 Makrolon…
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…
Most people who appreciate fountain pens do have a somewhat ambivalent relationship to, say, ballpoint pens. If a ballpoint pen is used, it is often for some of the more pragmatic use cases, e.g. blueprints, dirty or rugged environments, or…
There is a new star rising on the stationery horizon! And if the likes of Superior Labour, The Traveler’s Company, Midori MD, or Y-Studio are floating your boat, you definitely might want to check out the Ateliers Phileas, as they…