Seen in the wild

Gigantic 2

14 Sep, 2019 in Lamy / Seen in the wild tagged Australia / Lamy / seen in the wild / The Pen Shop / Typo by memm

Australian stationery chain Typo is becoming more and more common in the UK.

Their gigantic pencils are the best thing I found in store.

Since we’re talking about high street chains in the UK: The Pen Shop seems to focus on more affordable pens. In this case Lamy.

A handmade tale 1

4 Aug, 2019 in Seen in the wild / Uncategorised tagged seen in the wild by memm

Today’s featured article in the App Store…

…features familiar tools.

The image in this blog post has been taken from the Apple’s App Store. I believe that the use of the images shown in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

Pencil Wallpapers 2

26 Jul, 2019 in Seen in the wild tagged pencil / seen in the wild / wallpaper by memm

There’s a surprising amount of pencil-themed wallpaper around.

Here’s one example: model blue impale-y picket fence.

School Stationery in Britain and France 1

18 Jul, 2019 in Seen in the wild tagged France / seen in the wild / United Kingdom by memm

While in the UK school is coming to an end for this academic year France is already thinking ahead and is looking at Back to School stationery.

In the UK supermarkets are currently filled with ‘Thank you Teacher’ items. The link to stationery is obvious. Thank you, my teacher – or should that maybe also be ‘Thank you, my pencil’ like in Kunio Kato’s Oscar acceptance speech..

while Britain is saying Goodbye to the old academic year France is already thinking about the stationery you’ll need for the next academic year. If you were always wondering which 29 stationery items a French pupil needs have a look at this article by The Local.