Atlas Stationers
It’s pen and paper bliss in Chicago.
“Writer-y”
From Zits.
Pencil vs. pencil vs. pencil vs. pen
Which lasts longer: a cheap pencil, a better pencil, a mechanical pencil, or a ballpoint pen?
A letter from Oliver Sacks
To Austin Kleon. And it’s handwritten. Bonuses: the note-taking effort that prompted the letter, and a tour of Sacks’s desk.
Then, Voyager
A complete kit for writing V-Mail, with everything but fountain pen and mechanical pencil: ink, leads, stationery, pen wiper, calendar, ruler, and instructions for pen care.
CW Pencil and
“After almost six years exclusively selling graphite, the notoriously niche CW Pencil Enterprise is soon to become a full-service office supply shop.”
Analog rising
“Sales of stationery and cards are actually up among younger and youngish people”: so says Marketplace Morning Report.
Still more pencil cups
Elaine Walizer shared these photographs.
More pencil cups
From Elaine.
Pencil bear
My friend Sara shared a photograph of a 3-D-printed bear holding Mirado Black Warriors, a pen, and a screw. A stationary stationery bear.
More pencil holders
George Bodmer, who draws Oscar’s Portrait, shared a photograph of his bamboo pencil holders.
Boop, Twinings, jars
A Betty Boop cup, Twinings tins, and jars holding some of my pens and pencils.
Still life in red and green
Pencils, pens, and a thermometer. A screenshot from Alfonso Cuarón’s Sólo con tu pareja.
At the office with Louis Malle
The opening scenes of Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows (1958) are office-centric.
Pocket notebook sightings
Where the Sidewalk Ends (dir. Otto Preminger, 1950) rich in stationery supplies.
Writing instruments
At Submitted for Your Perusal, two poster-like images of Writing Instruments Through the Ages.
The Sharpie Liquid Pencil
Writes like an uncooperative ball-point pen.
Carnival of Pen, Pencil, and Paper
Like it says, at Office Supply Geek
Eric Gill: control, distraction, and tools
Thoughts on writing and searching, inspired by Gill's comments on letterpress printing
Thinking with pens and pencils
Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen has written a dissertation arguing that pens and pencils are crucial in the development of creativity and intelligence.