So, apparently I have been living under a rock because I’ve just discovered the Post-It Flag Pen. Doing some reading …
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 companies (like Pilot’s patent for the FriXion erasable pen) but others were to smaller independent inventors with some interesting ideas.
Need some beautiful calligraphy for invitations, announcements, etc, but have neither the skills nor the tools to do it right? No worries. There are plenty of shortcuts for creating your own DIY calligraphy or real looking fake calligraphy.
Sharpie has a brilliant new ad campaign highlighting its Ultra Fine Point permanent markers by displaying tiny artwork on what looks like red blood and bacteria cells.
We’ve never seen ink look so gorgeous. Just had to share it.
We reached out to Jacob Schwartz, the film director who made the ink-drop video, to ask what kinds of ink he used in this project. He said he doesn’t remember the brand, but that he used calligraphy ink.