After my positive experience with the Seawhite of Brighton Starter Sketchbook, I decided to take the Seawhite Artist’s Travel Journal out for a test drive. This is their best effort to replicate a better Moleskine Artist’s Sketchbook and they did it. First of all, its a true A5 size. Second, on Amazon, its priced at…
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Pen Review: Uni Signo Angelics 0.7mm Gel Pens
Since I started doing the #rockyourhandwriting challenge this month in my Field Notes Sweet Tooth editions, I’ve been having fun experimenting with all sorts of opaque gel pens. The Uni Signo Angelics ($2 each) are some of the best opaque gel pens available. The tips are 0.7mm and the pens dry to a matte finish…
Live From Atlanta! Pen Addict Episode #200
Saturday, April 16th, 6:00 pm (Doors at 5:30): The Pen Addict Podcast, Episode #200 LIVE Brad and Myke are recording episode #200 of the Pen Addict podcast and I have the honor of sitting third chair beside two of the best guys in the pen community. If you are in Atlanta AND attending the Pens…
Ink Review: Sailor Bungbox Blue Black
Sailor Bung Box Blue Black is also called “4B” and boy, is it another one of those colors I just love. Its a rich indigo blue with a halo of red that gives it such a pop. I decided to test it in the teeny, tiniest pen I own, my Kaweco Liliput with an EF…
Link Love: Don’t Let the Ink DROP!
Pens: Kaweco Classic Sport vs Lamy Vista (via Stationery Wednesday) Lefties and fountain pens. (via The Ink Smudge) Reflections of a Left Handed Writer (via Writer’s Bloc) Faber-Castell Ambition Blue Ocean OpArt Fountain Pen (via Pen Addict) Pilot Petit1 (via Pen Habit) Lamy Imporium Fountain Pen (via The PencilCase blog) Visconti Millennium Arc Moonlight (via…
Hmmm… Moleskine gets into the Digital Pen Market
Moleskine has introduced its Smart Writing Set, a notebook and digitally-enabled pen that works in combination with an app that syncs with the Moleskine Notes app, Google Drive or Evernote. The notebook is designed with rounded pages to look more like the shape of a tablet. Maybe to visually differeniate it from the regular notebooks?…
Review: Jinhao Fountain Pens
I received these two little lemon-lime treats from a Desk reader to try out and I’ve been delighted to take them for a test drive. They are the Jinhao 886 “bullet” fountain pens. They are small well-weighted, metal enamel fountain pens at a budget price. They kind of remind me of jelly beans. It looks…