January 2012
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Leuchtturm 1917 Review
I found a display rack full of the Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks today at the new art supply shop in Kansas City, Artist & Craftsman Supply, and I’ve been itching to try them for sometime so I grabbed one. I chose the plain, pocket-sized book with a simple black cover ($8.10). From the outside, its almost indistinguishable from a Moleskine pocket notebook from the outside. I didn’t...
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A Pearl Among Swine?
I had heard about the legendary Paper Mate Black Pearl eraser — the distant cousin of the old faithful Pink Pearl — but I had never located one to see for myself if it was all it was cracked up to be. I was visiting my local office supply superstore and lo and behold… the Black Pearl! It is black and a smooth, flat-like oval, like a polished stone. The shape alone is worth the...
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JetPens Giveaway!
The kind and benevolent gods and goddesses over at JetPens have given me a $25 gift certificate to give to you, one of my fine readers.
So, here are the rules:
You must tell me what you would buy with $25 at JetPens
You must leave this information in the comments here at The Well-Appointed Desk (comments on Facebook, Twitter and the like will not be considered an official entry)
You have...
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Pelle Leather Journal Review
The Pelle Journal is the American answer to the widely-coveted Japanese Midori Traveler’s notebook. I got the medium-sized notebook which does not align with either of the two sizes available for the Midori books. The small “passport-sized” books seem too small to be truly useful at about 3.5”x5”. I’m curious about the classic “traveler-sized” which...
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DIY planner kit
If you have had trouble settling on the perfect planner, why not try droplet’s DIY planner kit. For $10, you can download the PDF files for letter-size and half-sized templates and either 3-hole punch or bind the pages into a book. The PDF comes with monthly calendar pages, weekly pages, notes pages and a contacts page so that you can build just the sort of planner you need.
I owned the files...
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WatchI’m a big fan of the short audio pieces featured on Studio 360 called Design for the Real World which talks briefly about how iconic everyday items came into being. This piece seems perfectly suited to introducing it here on the Well-Appointed Desk — a short piece on the typewriter. Enjoy!
(via Design for the Real World: Studio 360)
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