This week’s title is inspired by the latest issue of Uppercase Magazine and their newest volume, No. 48, which is all about stationery and paper goods and the lovely design on the back cover which expounds “Never Enough Stationery” in a lovely lettering design. If you’ve never purchased anything from Uppercase or subscribed, Janine is offering a special end-of-year deal. Use the coupon code brightspot for $15 off subscriptions, gift subs and renewals until the end of 2020. I am not being paid to say this. I am just a fan.
This week, we have a plethora of pink inks, more year end wrap-ups and people planning for 2021. Stationery nerds are nothing if not optimistic about the future with our pile of analog tools and empty notebooks, ready to be filled. To a brighter, healthier, happier future!
Pens:
- Modern Everyday Carry Schon Dsgn Pocket 6 Fountain Pen (via Gourmet Pens)
- Esterbrook JR Pocket Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Visconti Lava Color: a new era for Homo Sapiens? (via UK fountain pens)
- Year-End Recap: Favorite Pens from 2020 (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Ink:
- Taccia Sunset (via Mountain of Ink)
- Taccia Corinth Pink (via Mountain of Ink)
- Robert Oster Santa’s Hangover Ink Review (via Pen Chalet)
- Fountain Pen Ink Review: Robert Oster Signature Shake’N’Shimmy® Rose Gold Antiqua (via Rants of The Archer)
- Yama-Budo by Pilot Iroshizuku (via Left Hook Pens)
- Tono & Lims Breakthrough (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
- Kyle’s Interesting Inks (via Pen Boutique Blog)
Pencils:
- Fabula Organic Pencil (via pencil talk)
Notebooks & Paper:
- My top 5 in stationery for 2020 (vianNero’s Notes)
- Bullet Journal Notebook Edition I Versus II (via Original Content Books)
- 2021 Planner Set Up. (via The Finer Point)
- Biella Index Cards (via pencil talk)
- New Reading Journal (via Writing at Large)
- Thoughts after trying digital planning for a month (am I making the switch from paper?) (via All About Planners)
- Chronodex Weekly Planner Jan – Jun 2021 Released (via Scription)
Art & Creativity:
- Sketchbook Design: My Tools (via Writing at Large)
- Best Knits Of 2020 (via Purl Soho)
- Tombreck Hat, a free pattern (via Ysolda Ltd)
- Review: Watercolour Sketchbooks from St Louis Art Supply (via Parka Blogs)
- Sketch Material Wish List for 2021 (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- My Urban Sketching Setup 2020 (via Parka Blogs)
- The Brilliant Use of Complementary Colors in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ (via My Modern Met)
- Tina’s 2020 Tops and Flops (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- Drawing people on zoom (via Apple-Pine)
- Fold Yourself a Little Serenity (via Hyperallergic)
- People Spend Quarantine by Making Tiny Crochet Couches For Their Cats (via Design You Trust)
Other Interesting Things:
- You Can Download More Than 1,000 Studio Ghibli Still Images for Free (via My Modern Met)
- Model With Down Syndrome Breaks Barriers With High-Profile Campaigns (via My Modern Met)
- Shenzhen Natural History Museum Is Designed To “Emerge” From River (via My Modern Met)
- 20 great books I read in 2020 (via Austin Kleon)
- Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes (via Hyperallergic)
- With Soul, Pixar Attempts to Make a Radically Different Kind of Animation (via Hyperallergic)
- The Gap Between Having Good Taste and Doing Good Work (via Kottke.org)
- TPK’s Top Hits of 2020 (via The Postman’s Knock)
- Very Special Deliveries (via National Postal Museum)
- Modernistmas 2020 (via Present&Correct)
- Why Social Media May Not Be the Best Thing for Me (via Wearing History Blog)
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