Just a reminder that through April 27, The Well-Appointed Desk is traveling in Hong Kong and mainland China and may be posting sporadically. I hope to have a couple stationery posts up tomorrow but please be patient. After the 27th, we will be back to a regularly scheduled posts from the US.
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Pantone mess no more
As a designer, one of the most common bits of detritus on my desk are little squares of color known as Pantone chips. There is one or two in the dish under my monitor, a couple more in a desk drawer, a few more tacked to a 3×5 and so on. But for every one…
A little ray of sunshine
Do you know what can happen with a pile of yellow writing tools and some plain, white paper like this? Fill a cloudy day with sunshine by “sunshine bombing” your town like Andrea of Hula Seventy and her daughter Ava did. The pen is mightier than even the clouds. (via Hula Seventy)
Dot dot dot
Pencil erasers don’t usually erase worth a damn so why not make them useful in other ways like making fun dotty art with a rainbow stamp pad! Use them to color code files or decorate a letter, note or package. Fun, cheap and easy! (via Li’l Magoolie)
Pencil Salt & Pepper
Part of my day job requires that I make an inordinate amount of salt and pepper shaker sets. I realize this sounds like a particularly odd occupation and, trust me when I say, I never expected to do anything like this as a job. So, when I stumbled across this set of pencil salt…
Link Love
I realized recently that while I’m on-the-go, I favorite lots of things on Twitter with the intention of going back to visit them later. So I thought I’d start making it a regular feature here. Great links, photos and info culled from Twitter. If you work in a design firm, ad agency or other venue…