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Congratulations to Canadian stationer Papterie Nota Bene for being prominently featured on two pages of today’s National Post. By Nathalie Atkinson, Move over Moleskine is a richly illustrated leisurely look at the fine notebooks and writing implements that many of us enjoy. What the online article doesn’t show are the photos and prominence that the [...] This might be the world’s only Urban Gridded Notebook. By John Briscella, it was sold by a print-on-demand publisher. Though I doubt it, I might be the only person to have ever purchased a copy. The notebook has city grids, and no text aside from a list of cities on the last page. You can [...] Felissimo recently relaunched their amazing set of 500 colour pencils in Japan. This news was already exciting, but Felissimo recently contacted me, and told me about their plans to make these pencils available globally by monthly subscription! 25 pencils are sent from Japan each month for 20 months. The subscription price is $33.00 per month, [...] Sorry, the blog was offline for a while due to a local storm. As well, we’ll be taking a break for a few days. See you next week! Some more pencil news: American Executive magazine has a wide ranging interview with a Fila VP, touching on many aspects of the future of Dixon and Lyra. An upcoming IPO is probably a surprise to most of us. Moving even more manufacturing to Mexico and China probably isn’t. Congratulations to Caran d’Ache, whose Prismalo watercolour [...] Let’s navigate away from Lewisburg and head over to Mumbai. The Hindustan Pencil Company was founded in 1958, and is now India’s largest pencil manufacturer. They state that they manufacture 5.6 million pencils per day! That would be over two billion per year. This would put them in the elite league of Faber-Castell and Staedtler. [...] |
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