Blackwing’s $400 Crate Is Every Writer’s Dream Gift Set
Pencils don’t usually make people emotional. But Blackwing pencils have always been a little different. The brand, which revived the legendary Blackwing 602 after its…
Stationery
The 7 Best Japanese Stationery Designs That Make Going Back to School Actually Feel Worth It
There’s something about the start of a new semester that makes you want to be more organized than you actually are. The folders, the planners,…
Nobody Expected a $28 Folding Clipboard to Be This Well Thought Out
The clipboard is one of those objects that hasn’t changed much because the problem it solves seems too simple to revisit. It holds paper flat…
Korean Studio Just Designed a Pencil That Looks Like an Idea
If you’ve ever sat down with a blank notebook and a good pencil and felt your brain finally slow down enough to actually think, you…
8 Best Back to School EDC Essentials That Actually Make Showing Up Feel Like You Mean It
Back to school has a version where you scramble for a notebook and a pen that works, and a version where everything you reach for…
The Mechanical Pencil With No Button Is Actually Genius
The mechanical pencil has barely changed in over a century. You hold it, click the top, the lead advances, you write. Nobody questions it. Nobody…
Varydes Built a Steel Pen Named After Rain That Never Falls
Pens have been essentially the same for decades. You pick one up, you write, you lose it in the bottom of your bag, and you…
7 titanium EDC pens engineered like tiny tools: one weighs 32 grams
The pen used to be one of those things you’d stuff into a bag without thinking. A Pilot G2, a free hotel pen, whatever happened…
The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.
The Soviet Union had a complicated relationship with spectacle. Everything about Soviet ideology pointed toward collective purpose, practical function, and the rejection of excess. And…
5 Best Remote Work Desk Gadgets Under $200 That Made Us Rethink the Whole Setup
The desk you work at shapes how the work itself feels. Most people know this in theory and ignore it in practice, assembling setups gradually…
This Ultrasonic Cutter Vibrates 40,000 Times a Second For Cleaner 3D-Print Finishing. And It’s On Sale.
A modern creator’s desk looks different from how it did a decade ago. A 3D printer often sits where a sketchbook once lay, and filament…
1 Cork Frame Just Solved the Sticky Note Problem for Good
Every once in a while, a design comes along that makes you wonder why it didn’t exist sooner. Contour, by Budapest-based industrial designer Adam Miklosi,…