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How to make learning to draw a whole lot easier. – Danny Gregory I’ve been helping folks to start drawing for ages but more importantly, I have helped myself to...

Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories – The New York Times Such radical simplicity is surprisingly complicated to produce. Since 1889, the General...

How to Write a Blog Post – Rands in Repose Repeat until it starts to feel done in your head. If it’s handwritten, type it into a computing device. When you are ...

Rohdesign Dispatch: Logbook Your 2018 I’ve been keeping a logbook since 2014, and it’s become one of my most important tools. I use a logbook to tra...

American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened | News | The Guardian Paper has played “an essential role in the development of mankind”. And yet,...

Reasons to keep a personal journal or sketchbook | Boing Boing So I strongly recommend a paper journal over an app, at least for those looking at journaling as ...

How the Index Card Catalogued the World — The Atlantic I’m not going to quote a single bit of this one because, while I was somewhat aware of the history ...

‘Handwritten letters belong to you like your DNA’ | Life and style | The Guardian Emails and texts act like the middleman between the author and recipient, tech...

PenMuse This is a neat project from Matthew Lang. And I’ve always loved the idea that, if what you’re looking for doesn’t exist, you should cr...