Link Love: Keeping it Clean

The weather warmed up this week and the snow has melted so we are all feeling a bit of that spring fever here. It’s seems appropriate that, not one but, TWO posts this week discuss pen cleaning tactics. Well, you gotta start spring cleaning somewhere…

Pens:

• Gravitas Pocket Pen Rainbow Skittle (via dapprman)
• A review of sorts – the Surrokko fountain pen (via A Stationery Voyage)
• Visconti Homo Sapiens x2 (via United Inkdom)
• What is the right size for my pen collection? (via mnmlscholar)
• YSTUDIO Classic Revolve – Fountain Pen (via KraftyCats)
• How to Clean a Fountain Pen (via JetPens)
• Cleaning Fountain Pens with Brian Anderson! (via Anderson Pens Blog)

Ink:

• KWZ Brown Green (via Mountain of Ink)
• Jacques Herbin Shogun (via Wonder Pens)
• Sailor Tea Time Series Fika Coffee Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Tono & Lims White (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Jacques Herbin Vert Atlantide L’encre 350 (via TooManyPelikans)
• New TWSBI Inks: A Comparison (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Vinta Inks Blue Floss Perya 1820 (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Vinta Aegean Armada and Leyte Sea Kelp (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Pencils:

• Pencil Review: Wingback Mechanical Pencil in Brass (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Aztec Chimera (via Nero’s Notes)
• Review: Sakura/Rabbit Foam Pure Slim Eraser (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Tinted Graphite Comparison: Derwent, Staedtler, Spectrum Noir (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Jack Baty’s Microblog (via The Cramped)
• Planning for Uncertainty (via Writing at Large)
• journaling i – ink between the teeth (via inksharks)

Art & Creativity:

• Brand New: Learn to Hand-draw Logos like the Best (via Under Consideration)
• Debbie Millman explores why design matters in an upcoming new book (via Creative Boom)
• Artist Has Spent Last Two Years Drawing Animals to Fulfill Twitter Promise. Has Another 16 Years to Go. (via Spoon & Tamago)
• Vintage Japanese Watercolor Sketches of Toy Designs (via Design You Trust)
• White gel pen, white markers, paint and ink (via Parka Blogs)
• Designer Recreates Modernist Masterpieces in Wonderful Art Prints (via My Modern Met)
• Inkpen (via Abigail Halpin)

Other Interesting Things:

• Starbucks Is a Bank that Sells Coffee (via Kottke.org)
• A Teenager’s Dreamy Art Deco Bedroom From 1929 (via Hyperallergic)
• The Giant Chainmail Box That Stops a House From Dissolving (via Kottke.org)
• Photographer Continues to Capture Hiding Cats in Venice (via Design You Trust)
• Knit to This: Around the World in 80 Days (via Modern Daily Knitting
• Pen Show Report Card and Philly Pen Show Re-recap (via The Pen Addict)
• Typewriter Skills Aided First Women to Join US Marine Corps (via oz.Typewriter)
• An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist. (via Washington Post)

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