Atlas Stationers
It’s pen and paper bliss in Chicago.
Greta Gerwig’s luxury item(s)
From Desert Island Discs.
“Writer-y”
From Zits.
Dots and forms
It’s oddly reassuring to see that our trash pickup still bills with a dot-matrix printer and tractor-feed forms. But this year: no side perforations on the forms. Times, changing.
A place for everything . . .
A cluttered desk.
Pen and paper and
From Judith Flanders’s A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order: everything that used to be needed for writing with ink.
Write this down
“A study of Japanese university students and recent graduates has revealed that writing on physical paper can lead to more brain activity when remembering the information an hour later.”
Edward M. Stringham’s archives
Mary Norris writes about the extraordinary archives of a New Yorker collator.
Analog rising
“Sales of stationery and cards are actually up among younger and youngish people”: so says Marketplace Morning Report.
Analog strong
“Never underestimate the power of a State Department guy with a pad and pen”: Anne Gearan, Washington Post reporter, speaking on MSNBC last night.
Word of the day: dandy roll
The name Dandyroll Washbasin comes from Bill Griffith’s imagination and knowledge of papermaking.
A coach’s pencil and paper
A football playsheet is laminated. So why does Matt Patricia, coach of the Detroit Lions, carry a pencil?
Hard copies
Peter Funt: “And so ticket stubs join theater playbills, picture postcards, handwritten letters and framed photos as fading forms of preserving our memories. It raises the question, Is our view of the past, of our own personal history, somehow different without hard copies?”
“Twelve chatty letters”
Cell-phone outage in Dingburg, but Zippy is quite at home with the printed (or handwritten) page.
A timely notepad
A Time Secretary, notepad and clock, as seen in the movies.
Pen, notebook, cursive
A.O. Scott, New York Times film critic, keeping it analog.
An agenda
A photograph from W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants.
Tape
Federal employees have been assigned to tape back together the documents the president rips up.
Paper jams
In the latest The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman learns “Why Paper Jams Persist.”
Custom notebooks in Japan
With a paper concierge.
Recently updated
“The Power of the Printed Word,” now with Garrison Keillor’s advice on how to write a personal letter.
Paper campaign unfolding
The paper and packaging industry, working to promote its products.
Pencil and paper
Khoi Vinh recently surveyed designers about the tools they use.
Tobias Frere-Jones on cigar-box edging
“Everything is collected by somebody, and I’m grateful for that. Ephemera, the fragile snapshots of everyday design, would be lost without collectors.”
One more piece of paper
The PocketMod.
William Shawn, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
Joseph Mitchell, paper and pencil
The everyday carry.
Gay Talese’s address book
“I am a person who cares about the past as much as the future. I don’t think that it is ethical to erase the past.”
“The Power of the Printed Word”
“In 1979, International Paper began a print-ad campaign, ‘The Power of the Printed Word,’ a series of fifteen ads offering how-to wisdom from household names.”
Paper, +1
Lucy Kellaway prefers paper calendars to digital ones.