I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That? – NYTimes.com
I use a manual typewriter — and the United States Postal Service — almost every day. My snail-mail letters and thank-you notes, office memos and to-do lists, and rough — and I mean very rough — drafts of story pages are messy things, but the creating of them satisfies me like few other daily tasks.
Great piece.
This is the moral of my Vesper story. It fits into my analog workflow better than any other notetaking app. And it took me a bloody long time to realize it.
The rare review where the workflow described starts with the digital then moves to the analog. We approve.
The Erasable “Pencil is Forever” T-shirt
A nice shirt with a good message that supports our friends at the Erasable Podcast. Sign me up!
Wonderfully delivered and very compelling talk by Master Penman Jake Weidmann.
(via The Well Appointed Desk)
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Thoughts on visual note taking, graphic recording, visual harvesting, concept drawing, model drawing and visual thinking. From favorite markers to facilitation challenges.
An instant follow for me.
The Handwriting of Type Designers
A type designer’s handwriting is intriguing in the sense of several things like: Do they exert extraordinary pen control compared to a layperson? Did their handwriting somehow influenced the typefaces they created? Is handwriting no longer needed or useful given the rise of digital communications?
OK, this is fascinating. I definitely see the similarities in may of the cases presented.
And, by “this week’s pens” I mean “last week’s pens” since I was away for the weekend and did not get a chance to post this on Saturday as I normally would…
Remember, I usually post what I’m using each day on my personal Twitter account and use the hashtag [#todayspen]7. I welcome all of you to join in. I love seeing what other people are using (and check that tag every day). Who knows, if I see something I’m curious about I might reach out to you and ask you to write a guest review. Fame and fortune await (well, not really).
Muji Fountain Pen Review — Modern Stationer
I’ve long wondered about these. Now, I know. Good review from Doug. Looks like a decent pen for the money.
Andy Welfle for Woodclinched:
Man. I love, love this paper. It boasts a 100gsm paper, compared to the Palomino luxury notebook’s 90gsm and Rhodia’s 80gsm paper. It’s so thick and plush, you guys.
It’s available in both lined and plain. Since the guys at Pencils.com know I am not an artist, they sent me a lines one to try out. The grey lines are set apart 0.25” on an off-white paper. The paper is smooth, but not as smooth as Rhodia paper. It has a little tooth on it, specifically engineered — I hope — for pencil. It’s the perfect amount to grab your graphite but still feel smooth.
It appears that fountain pen users may see some feathering due to the fibrous nature of the paper, but then again, this notebook was made for pencils.