Did the title of this week’s Link Love catch your attention? I thought it might. Just hop down to the “Other Interesting Things” section to find the article from Hyperallergenic about Whitman’s swarthy, marketing ways. Oh, yeah… he might have been all Walden Pond-ish but he knew a thing or two poetry and, as Robin Williams once extolled in Dead Poets Society, “wooing women.” That scamp!
Pens:
- Moleskine Go Ballpoint Pen (via The Pen Addict)
- The Laban 325: Won’t Stop a Rhino (via Writing For Pain & Pleasure)
- News: TWSBI Teases New Color for Eco-T Fountain Pen (via Rediscover Analog)
Ink:
- My Ink Testing Kit (via The Pen Addict)
- Cult Pens Diamine Deep Dark Green Ink (via Gourmet Pens)
- Montblanc’s Ink Conundrum? (via The Pencilcase Blog)
- Sailor Ink Studio Swatch Tests – Part 10 – Green (via Nick Stewart’s Fountain Pen Ink Art)
- Lamy Crystal Ink Obsidian (via Inkdependence!)
- Review: Robert Oster Frankly Blue (via Alt. Haven)
- Robert Oster Red Candy (via Mountain of Ink)
Pencils:
- What do you do with a stubby pencil*? (via Polar Pencil Pusher)
- 10 Thoughts on the Blackwing 10 (via Lead Fast)
- Happy Mechanical Pencil Day 2019 (via Bleistift)
- Musgrave Ceres 909 (#2) (via Polar Pencil Pusher)
- Top Five Mechanical Pencils: For When You Really Want To Write Small (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Yoseka Stationery Notebook Review (via Ed Jelley)
- Lamy Adds Notebooks to their Product Line (via Rediscover Analog)
- Field Notes “National Parks Series” (via Tools and Toys)
- Gillio Bubblegum Pink Matte Croco Medium Amica Review (via Philofaxy)
Art & Creativity:
- Art Journaling with just one ink (via Nick Stewart’s Fountain Pen Ink Art)
- Sara Boccaccini Meadows’ Sketchbooks (via Notebook Stories)
- Van Gogh Black Watercolor Paper, Metallic Paint Review (via Doodlewash)
- How Odd Jobs Helped Nat Reed Create His Retro-Inspired Illustrations (via My Modern Met)
- Ed Cheverton keeps things endlessly escapist (via It’s Nice That)
- Street Artist Peeta Recently Created This Optical Illusion House For The Street Art Festival (via Design You Trust)
- Are graphic designers really ‘artists’ too? This one reckons so… (via Creative Boom)
Other Interesting Things:
- Walt Whitman’s Sensuality and Self-Promotion (via Hyperallergenic)
- The Layered Nature of Artifice in a Book About a 16th-Century Naturalist (via Hyperallergenic)
- News: Pelikan Hubs 2019 By The Numbers (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
- The Nomad’s Guide to Practicing Calligraphy (via The Postman’s Knock)
- 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings are UNESCO World Heritage Sites (via My Modern Met)
- Friday Freebie! Wallpaper (via love print studio blog)
- Penguin celebrates dog-eared delights in new Happy Reading campaign (via It’s Nice That)
- 40 years of the Sony Walkman celebrated in Tokyo exhibition (via It’s Nice That)
- Brazilian Artist Creates Beds For Animals From The Old Tires That He Finds In The Streets (via Design You Trust)
