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Keep An Eye Out For Some Of These Newly Patented Pens

February 28, 2013

So, for some reason the other day, I was tooling around the website of the U.S. Patent Office and decided to do a search for pens. Don’t know what I was expecting, but I found a surprising number of new patents for writing instruments granted in the last several months. Some were to the big [...]

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Penthusiasm!

February 22, 2013

Margana at Inkophile lists her favorite inks and pens. Heather at A Penchant for Paper tests out the best pens for writing on dark paper. Seth at Good Pens highly recommends that travelers shop at Muji to Go. Alberto at Lung Sketching Scrolls picks up the Crayola Crayon Tower to store his Caran d’Ache art [...]

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Photographer Ina Jang Starts With Her Notebook

February 21, 2013

It’s not uncommon for a photograph to inspire an artist’s sketch, but Ina Jang is a photographer who uses her sketches to inspire her photographs. She sketches out her ideas for photos using a fine-point Uniball Signo and a Moleskine notebook, then turns those sketches into reality, according to this excellent story about Jang in [...]

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What Is An Autopen?

February 19, 2013

I’ve been hearing the term ‘autopen’ a lot lately, both in reference to the US president’s signature and to collectible autographs, so it made me a little curious about this mysterious device. Honestly, I was picturing a pen that you held in your hand while it moved on its own across the page, sort of [...]

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Penthusiasm!

February 17, 2013

Becca at Natto Soup pits the Copic Sketch against the ShinHan Twin Touch. Leigh at My Life as a Verb celebrated Chinese New Year with some ink swab drawings. Brad at the Pen Addict gives glory to Noodler’s 54th Masschusetts ink. Azizah at Gourmet Pens admires the stealthy Big Idea Design Titanium Pen +Stylus. Laurie [...]

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The Lernstift Pen Corrects You As You Go

February 16, 2013

How would you like a pen that lets you know when you commit grammar and spelling errors and when your penmanship begins to drift? That’s the idea behind the Lernstift, a pen currently being developed by a small German start-up with a big idea. The pen is designed to alert you to errors not with a [...]

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New In The Tiger Pens Store: Bic Xpen, Pilot V5 & V7 Cartridge Pens and Zebra Z-Grip Flight

February 15, 2013

We’ve been busy the last few weeks adding some brilliant new pens to our online catalog, and we think you’re going to enjoy these latest arrivals. Please take a moment to check out the highlights. Bic Xpen Chrome Fountain Pen – One of our most exciting additions, this is a refillable fountain pen at a disposable [...]

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Congrats To Pentel For Another Great Year Of Cancer Research Funding

February 14, 2013

Pentel has been supporting cancer research campaigns in the UK for several years now and announced recently that 2012 was a spectacular year, bringing in a combined £372,000 for breast and prostate cancer work. The company helps the Breast Cancer Campaign and Prostate Cancer UK by selling special versions of popular pens such as the EnerGel [...]

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Highlighters: To Use Or Not To Use

February 13, 2013

I love highlighting my books. I have a green Pilot FriXion highlighter that I usually keep tucked into whatever book I’m reading – if it’s non-fiction – to brighten up those key phrases that I want to mark for future reference. So, I was a little surprised recently to see the results of a psychological study [...]

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Big Business In Forged Autographs

January 30, 2013

I’ve watched enough of the TV show “Pawn Stars” to know that, as Rick Harrison says, there are a “ton of fakes” when it comes to autographs. But I didn’t know that something like 50 percent of certain famous signatures are forgeries. PSA/DNA is one of the premier services for authenticating collector autographs. They’ve recently [...]

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