Certain stationery implements seem to be able to communicate a sense of fun and joy - they make us smile and beckon us to make use of their potential.
I think the Mateo Ilasco Numbers Notepad does this.
There are thirty-two numbered lines, each connecting back via another line to some groups they belong to - […]
This is a super-lightweight yet fun and practical notebook.
Made of cardboard with paper that is called “comic” (from comic books?), it has a bright removable elastic band.
It has that look of a found or reclaimed object, though there is clearly quite a bit of design in this functional notebook. It may be part of a […]
I can’t read much of it, yet it seems to speak very well to many interests of mine.
Red and blue pencils, leadholders, quirky office accessories - they’re all here, and featured prominently.
The magazine is in Japanese, with about 150 glossy pages crammed full of photos of woodcase pencils, mechanical pencils, leadholders, erasers, sharpeners, staplers, hole […]
Yesterday’s San Francisco State University Xpress had an article on O’Bon. According to the article, the company is Malaysian headquartered, with sales in Asia and North America. They make “environmentally friendly” products such as pencils cased in recycled newspapers.
They operate several websites:
A blog, where they mention, among other things, that their pencils have met U.S. […]
Nava, whose pencil we looked at in 2006, of course makes many other stationery items. A new entry is their Nava Notes notepads.
The pads come in variety of sizes and colours, either side or top folding, hole punched or not. The covers have interesting colours and distinctive textures - they are definitely not […]
Schoollocker is an Etsy store. Etsy is a large online marketplace of hand crafted items, almost akin to Ebay, though items are not sold by auction. An offering I noticed was a quadrille/squared/gridded/graph paper index card. I love this type of index card, and can’t find any close to home.
If the Exacompta cards I mentioned […]
This site now has an index page. I’ve tried to put links to most of the past pencil and stationery content, organized by topic. I also created links to the most popular posts (so far). Please let me know if there are any problems.
Link: pencil talk index
The name is convoluted - but that is what they are called - “Fiches Bristol”, “Record Cards”, “Fichas Bristol”, “Karteikaten”, “Steekkaarten”, or “Schede Bristol”.
Closer to home, they might be called “index cards” - but where can one find index cards like this?
They are made of superior paper in seven sizes (mm units):
74×105
75×125
100×150
105×148
125×200
148×210
210×297
White, and […]