Since I’ve been working on my own calling cards this week, I thought I’d round-up some potential options, should you be in need of your own cards. First up is a total DIY solution thanks to How About Orange. This single design is a PDF file you can download and customize. Then print it on…
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Lost Crates
Would you like to get a customized package of paper goods delivered to your doorstep each month? Then Lost Crates might be for you. Using a visual quiz, they will match an array of office products to your answers from markers to Moleskines for $38 per month. Stay tuned! I’ll have an interview with Lost…
Semikolon Tablet and Composition Book Review
My dear friends over at Tag Team Tompkins showered me with notebooks for my birthday so I thought I might share the goodies with you, my fine readers. The first up is the Semikolon brand notebooks. I received a A4 Paper Block tablet and a composition-style, A5 exercise notebook. It seems their focus is on…
Back-to-School with Crayola
Pardon me while I plug the firm for a moment. For those who don’t know yet, I work full-time as a designer at Hallmark (the Well-Appointed Desk is my passion but not my income) and Hallmark owns this lovely little company called Crayola. Crayola is what I like to think of as the gateway drug…
Preferences
I thought this might be a good time to mention a few of my personal biases when it comes to office supplies. I do not like ballpoint pens. They never write smoothly for me and always looks cheap to me. I’m not particularly fond of rollerball pens either. They tend to choke when I use…
Vintage Repro Cahiers Review
Laughing Elephant has created these vintage reproduction French cahiers. Each notebook has the classic look of a vintage composition notebook with cardstock covers with rounded corners. There are eleven different designs in their line of French Notebooks, these are just two of the designs. Inside each book is warm white paper with pale sepia lines.…
Mongol Watercolor Pencils
This is the most useful product box I’ve seen in awhile. I’m floored at the amount of thought and ingenuity that went into making the packaging useable and functional for these old pencil sets. The snap closure with leatherette band keeps the pencils from escaping inside a bag or desk drawer. Not to mention that…