Leuchtturm Drehgriffel is the pen which was restored to the market in 2020 after a hundred years of absence. Popular in the 1920s this writing instrument was straightaway given the prize in prestigious contest of Red Dot Design Award 2020. Drehgriffel is made from brass and milled aluminium and its body is covered with paint in nine colors matching the colors of Leuchtturm notebooks. Double-barreled name where Dreh means twist and Griffel means graphite comesCzytaj dalej
Author: Elmira
Blackwing Vol. 155
The Bauhaus Pencil A tribute to the Bauhaus School and its legacy of craftsmanship. When Walter Gropius published his Manifesto of the Staatliches Bauhaus in the spring of 1919, he declared that “there is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan.” In the years that would follow, his Bauhaus Art School would seek to tear down the wall that had been built between the fine and applied arts. From 1919 to its prematureCzytaj dalej
Blackwing Vol. 42
The Jackie Robinson Pencil. Breaking down barriers. A tribute to Jackie Robinson and those who fight for their passion. On July 6, 1944, eleven years before Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama and ignited the Civil Rights Movement, another individual refused to move to the back of a bus. He was 2nd Lieutenant Jack Roosevelt Robinson, and his refusal earned him a court martial for “behavingCzytaj dalej
Blackwing Vol. 10
The Investigative Journalism Pencil A tribute to Nellie Bly and investigative journalists like her. In 1887, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World tasked Nellie Bly, a yet unknown journalist, with investigating the insane asylum on New York’s Blackwell’s Island. She was asked to look into the conditions of the asylum and “write up things as you find them, good or bad.” She did so the best way she knew, by getting herself committed for ten days. TheCzytaj dalej
How to choose a gift? – a guide how to overcome Christmas dilemma
To avoid stress caused by going Christams shopping last minute and look out the window for the courier isntead of the first star we would like to help in searching Christmast gifts at this very moment (it’s one of the ways to not go crazy)! It’s a common knowlegde that (not) the best Christmas gifts are socks! That’s why in Escribo we conducted research that will provide you with Christmas gifts ideas! Traveler’s Notebook –Czytaj dalej
The Third Edition Of Fountain Pen Day in Poland
The third edition of Fountain Pen Day in Poland, organized by us in collaboration with Amex is comming up! This will be the biggest festival of fountain pens, paper, nibs, pencils and any analog item! This year, Fountain Pen Day will take place on 17th of November 2018 at 10:00 – 19:00 in National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw located in 1 Kredytowa Street. As in case of previous editions, this event will be full ofCzytaj dalej
What to buy for a teacher? The list of the best and the worst graduation presents.
Like every year, a lot of students and their parents face with the problem what gift buy to a teacher at the end of the semester. In moments like these, all our ideas in our heads disappear as if by magic, and they are replaced by black hole accompanied with despair and doubt. We all have been there, right? That’s why, this year, based on our experience, we asked befriended teachers which gifts make themCzytaj dalej
10th Anniversary of MD Notebook!
It’s 10 years passed since the first MD notebook was introduced. Such an anniversary needs special setting and from this occasion Midori designed limited collection of notebooks and accessories. In the collection we can find ten notebooks in unique layouts such as dots, lines and grid with wide margin, and graph paper. Of course, each notebook was designed to perform a specific function, but despite from that the Midori gives us freedom in which theCzytaj dalej
2018 Diaries Review – ICONIC
At the end of 2018 Diaries Review we prepered for you the real hit – ICONIC Diaries 2018. ICONIC has a gift for creating products that are unique in every detail, unusually practical and durable. Starting from pencil cases, ballpoint pens and ending on notebooks – everything is just beautiful! In this year we are pleased to introduce to our offer a collection of diaries and planners. It was not an easy task for usCzytaj dalej
Blackwing Vol. 16.2
Imagination at work. From an early age, Ada Lovelace, the only child of Romantic poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke, showed an adeptness for mathematics and an uncanny ability to make creative connections between seemingly disparate things and ideas. She described this ability as “the Discovering Faculty,” and it was a gift she put to use in a way that would help shape the future of human civilization. In 1843, while translating an articleCzytaj dalej