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2019 contest and 2020 wishes

 in Mechanical pencils  tagged BIC / Caran d'Ache / Faber-Castell / Lamy / mechanical pencil / stationery.wiki by

Bleistift Blog is wishing you all the best for 2020.

If you want to start the new year with new mechanical pencils (from Caran d’Ache, Faber-Castell, Lamy and BIC) you still have a few days left to take part in the Stationery Wiki:Mechanical Pencil Day Contest 2019 (..if you read this blogpost on the day it was published).

The pencils that make up our prize for the mechanical pencil day contest

All you need to do is to improve an article or maybe even create a new article to have a chance of winning.

Good Luck – for 2020 and for the contest.

Paper paper everywhere 2

 in Paper & Notebooks  tagged paper / paper computer / paper phone / paper watch by

[An earlier version of this blog post was written on my phone in a rush and contained many mistakes. The number of mistakes has hopefully gone done after revision. See revised blog post below.]

After the paper computer1 and the paper watch there’s now a paper phone.

The idea of using paper instead of technology isn’t really new to stationery enthusiasts: This time it is Google’s turn to feature the idea of replacing tech with paper and this has been reported by many newspapers and news websites.

The paper phone kind of reminds me of IBM’s ‘Think Pad’.

  1. I used to use this paper computer with my students for a few years, but stopped using it because I wasn’t able to get a clear answer regarding copyright issues from the people who created it. [↩]

Mechanical Pencil Day Winner 1

 in Caran d'Ache / Cleo Skribent / Faber-Castell / Mechanical pencils  tagged Caran d'Ache / Cleo Skribent / Cult Pens / Faber-Castell / giveaway / mechanical pencil by

…and we have a winner! id00092 wrote the winning comment:

are you sure that Gessner is not a Ninja weapon??

id00092

Congratulations! Please contact me by email within a week (by 23 July 2019). My email address can be found on the ‘About’ page. You’ll need to let me know whether you want to win the Gessner or the other mechanical pencils (i.e. all of them except the Gessner).

To help you with that decision: Here’s a video about the Caran d’Ache 888 Infinite:

and one about the Faber-Castell TK-Fine 2315:

If you want to go back the the origins and prefer the Gessner then you’ll find some more information about the Gessner and the company behind it here: