Link Love: (fill in the blank) of the Year?

Which color will be your color of the year? Or your pen of the year? Or your word of the year?

Pelikan’s Rose Quartz or Pantone’s Viva Magenta are head-to-head as the pen community’s color of the year. Right? How similar are they? We will have to wait and see. IT appears that Rose Quartz might be a bit dustier pink. But who knows? Is Pelikan “on trend”?  Hmmmm….

I enjoy a special product each year but I’m not sure the logic behind the choices being made for each of them. Lamy has released one, two, or more Safari of the Year each year and their own ink color. Kaweco seems to roll out a new Sport or four each year. This trend has been going on so long that Brad and I have had buttons made to show your support for which Safari or AL-Star (or even Kaweco) you think is the winner.

What’s your take on the “_____ of the Year” trends? Do you look forward to these new products? Any guesses for the Lamy or Kaweco pens of the year?

Pens:

• New-to-Me Pen Brand: Ranga Fountain Pens (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Bestselling Fountain Pens of 2022 (via Pen Chalet Blog)
• Review: Ink-A-Pets Grey Cat Pen Rest (via Krafty Cats)
• Pen Review: Schon Full Sized Peek-A-Boo Pen (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• Fountain Pen Review: Wancher Sekai Tsugaru Urushi Midori-Age (via Rants of The Archer)

Ink:

• #1029 KEN’S NIGHT Stars Fell on Alabama (via HAPPY INK DAYS archives)
• Ink of the Week – My 2023 Project (via Fountain Pen Love)
• Ink Review #744: Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-Gaki (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)
• News: Edelstein Ink Of The Year 2023 – Rose Quartz (via The Pelikan’s Perch)
• Pantone Color Of The Year Meets Diamine Merlot Ink (via An Inkophile’s Blog)
• Diamine Inkvent 2022 Days 21-25 (via Mountain of Ink)

Pencils:

• Pentel mechanical pencils (via José Naranja)
• Vintage Staedtler Mars Lumochrom Colored Pencils (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)

Notebooks & Paper:

• The new year diary, 2023. (via Fountain pen blog)
• Putting Pen To Paper (via Fountain Pen Love)
• My 2023 Theme: Release (via From the Pen Cup)
• Archiving Your Old Diary Inserts? (via Philofaxy)
• Review of the Dot Journaling book by Hannah Beilenson (via All About Planners)
• Journaling in 2023: Use It or Lose It (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• Atoms to Astronauts to A5 to Apocrypha (via Nero’s Notes)

Art & Creativity:

• Detailed Illustrations Brim with Manic Mayhem in Mattias Adolfsson’s Exuberant Sketchbooks (via Colossal)
• Sketching Stuff Watercolor Pan Set Review (via Doodlewash)
• Mishmash: Alpha Sketchbook Retrospective (via Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
• Whiskey Palettes (via Jane Blundell Artist)
• On My Table: First Days of January 2023. (via Apple-Pine)
• All of Us Skin Tone Crayons Reflect the Planet’s Diversity with Eight Different Pigments (via Colossal)
• 8 Things Every Calligraphy Beginner Should Know (via The Postman’s Knock)
• Avatar and the Papyrus Typeface (via Kottke.org)
• How have we changed since the pandemic? Creatives share their honest thoughts (via Creative Boom)
• Food Paintings from my 5-Year Journal // A.C. (via Baum-kuchen)

Other Interesting Things:

• Innovative Japanese Stationery (via JetPens)
• Scriptus 2022 (via Wonder Pens)
• Getting the Office Ready (via Wonder Pens)
• Freshly inked (via Bleistift)
• New Year, New Videos (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• This Elegant Wall Hanging Doubles as a Stylish Wood Desk (via My Modern Met)
• The National Library of France Reopens with Renovations That Add 21st Century Details to the Beaux-Arts Gem (via Colossal)

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