Over 4,000 Empty Pen Refills Went into These Miniature Landmarks
“Disposable” pens have plastic parts that end up in landfills. M. R. Sreenivasulu decided to collect them and build something beautiful.
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How Does a Retractable Pen Work?
Watch and learn how a retractable pen is constructed, and how its anatomy allows it to function.
Modern Day Snail Mail
After finding an old calligraphy pen, designer and illustrator Cristina Vanko decided to send hand written text messages to people for that week, with some amazingly endearing results.
Study Tests Best Writing Instruments for Lab Data
Following an accident that damaged some of his written lab notes, biologist and photographer Colin Purrington undertook to choose his next laboratory writing instrument more scientifically. The test set included 20 pens and 1 pencil. As a brand, the Japanese-made Sakura Gelly Roll pens, like those shown here, stand out for fade- and bleed-resistance under the tested conditions.
How-To: Make Pens Much Prettier
Here’s a smart and dead-simple way to turn plain old clear pens into something customized and fancy. Visit Chocolate on my Cranium‘s photo tutorial, bust out your pretty paper scraps, and say goodbye to boring pens!
Refilling Varsity fountain pens
A few years ago, a friend turned me on to Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens. I have not picked up another stylus since. The only problem is that the pens are kind of hard come by in bricks and mortar office supply and they’re … well disposable. You can refill them with some effort at […]
Interview with the “God of fountain pens”
PingMag has an interview with Nobuyoshi Nagahara, a Japanese pen nib craftsman who’s been on the job for 50 years: PingMag: You must need a lot of patience to deal with each customer with such care. Nobuyoshi Nagahara: The thing that makes me most happy doing this work is being able to help people with […]
