Ever since the Muji branch in Rockwell opened, I’ve visited at least once a week. It takes effort not to buy something each time. Inside Muji I feel like I can buy serenity, a well-ordered life, and really cool notebooks. Dot grid notebooks have dots instead of a regular lined grid like graphing (also known …
Month: March 2011
Why do we search for “pictures” in Google image search? Isn’t that like googling Google?
Fully Booked stocks Clairefontaine, Prat and Sennelier sketch pads and notebooks. Maybe one day they’ll stock G. Lalo and L’Atelier du Papier too, and advance the French art supply invasion. l’ebauche sketch pads come in many sizes. I have the 16×16 and the 24×32, both 130 sheets each. The paper is off-white and fairly translucent, …
Second chances go over well in religions and romance novels. Recently, I’ve realized they also work with pens. You can absolutely hate a pen when you first try it, then when you go back and write with it again, maybe holding the pen at a different angle or using a different ink, you start to …
I found this in Kinokuniya, beside calligraphy brushes, brush pens and student sumi ink. The Platinum Soft Pen is a felt-tip, demonstrator-style pen. It comes with a cartridge of red ink, “Marking Red,” and a spare felt tip. I decided to pop in a Nakaya goldfish converter, thinking it would look good showing through the …
I know people who love to buy notebooks, and then can’t bring themselves to spoil the notebooks by scribbling and doodling in them. Â “Are my scratches and curlicues worthy of this saddle-stitched deckled-edge journal of wonder?” Of course they are. It’s your journal of wonder. Still, if you need the journal equivalent of training wheels, …