Misfill, Cosmo Air Light Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— First Impressions Trying Out Cosmo Air Light Paper for Fountain Pens (Gourmet Pens)

— Why fountain pen ink is ideal for monotone painting (Nick Stewart)

— Monteverde Scotch Brown on Leuchtturm1917 (Inkcredible Colours)

— Lamy Safari vs. Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen (Goldspot Pens)

— Review: Ensso Italia Titanium Fountain Pen (The Pencilcase Blog)

— Why do presidents use so many pens to sign documents - and what happens to them? (CNN)

— Ink Review #430: PenBBS #517 (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

— New project in Old Trafford brings the community together to create a local art trail (Creative Boom)

— comfort pasta (Writing at Large)

— Star Wars Characters as Classical Japanese Art (Design You Trust)

— Octopus Fluids Inks Set 3 (Mountain of Ink)

— Fountain Pen Review: Tibaldi Bononia Martini Olive (M Nib) (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Meet YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries (Hyperallergic)

— Ink Guru’s Book of Fountain Pen Inks (SBREBrown)

— Stylish details are always welcome (José Naranja)

— Pelikan’s #350: An Eastern Oddity Of The Classic Line (The Pelikan's Perch)

— Monthly Inked // 2021 Work Rotation (Weirdoforest Pens)

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Misfill, Hammer Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— Vin Scully calls Hank Aaron's historic 715th home run (YouTube)

— The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s (Design You Trust)

— Fountain Pen Quest Trail Log - January 24, 2021 (Fountain Pen Quest)

— Octopus Fluids Pastell Inks (Mountain of Ink)

— From the Pen Cup (Retreat)

— Geoff McFetridge on how he thinks through drawing (It’s Nice That)

— Profolio Oasis Light Notebook Review (Fountain Pen Love)

— The Gioia Alleria: a new Italian piston-filler with panache (UK fountain pens)

— Parker IM (dapprman)

— Essential Office Supplies: Monteverde for Montblanc Refills (The Gentleman Stationer)

— Tadanori Yokoo Emphasizes Deliberate Misalignment in Contemporary Woodblock Series (Spoon & Tamago)

— ”... a kind of continuation of the hand” (Lexikaliker)

— Van Dieman’s Apricot on Rhodia (Inkcredible Colours)

— Pen Review: Metaxas & Sins Stylos Green Fountain pen (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Ink Review #423: L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Cannelle (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

— The 20 Best Britpop Albums of 1995 (Brooklyn Vegan)

— Manfred Lamy: Long-time boss of the Heidelberg writing instrument manufacturer Lamy is dead (Archyde)

— The Noligraph: For the Musician's Equivalent of the Designer's Cocktail Napkin Sketch (Core77)

— A Curious Journey through the Story of the Passport (Messy Nessy Chic)

— Gourmet Pens Picks - Paper for Fountain Pens - Galen Leather Everyday Tomoe River Notebooks (Gourmet Pens)

— Helmo studio’s Thomas Couderc designs an aesthetically pleasing book on Japanese manhole covers (It’s Nice That)

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Misfill, 21 in 2020 Edition

Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great items I want to share. Enter Misfill. Here are this weeks links:

— 21 Things That Kept Me Going In 2020 (Kottke)

— News: Pelikan’s US Price Increases For 2021 And The Trends That Might Surprise You (The Pelikan's Perch)

— Ink Review #417: Robert Oster Blue Black (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

— First Impressions: Scribo Feel Fountain Pen (The Gentleman Stationer)

— Bandcamp Expands Vinyl Pressing Service (The Quietus)

— Working Tools. Boiling the frog (Stuart Lennon)

— 9 of the Best Graphic Memoirs and True Stories by Women (Book Riot)

— PENCIL REVOLUTION Vol. II is out. (PENCIL REVOLUTION!)

— Ink Review #1357: Cross Violet (Mountain of Ink)

— Esther Pearl Watson Channels Strange Pandemic Life in 100 Paintings (Hyperallergic)

— Three mini-reviews in one: Fine Writing Fenestro Kuroshio, Montegrappa Monte Grappa, Cross Sauvage (UK fountain pens)

— Consult the Doctor Episode 5 (SBREBrown)

— Finding time for creativity will give you respite from worries | Life and style (The Guardian)

— Marcus Brutus pairs fluorescent colours with historical moments (It’s Nice That)

— How Leeds Led the Goth Scene (PopMatters)

— My Daily Desk Set (January 2021) (The Well-Appointed Desk)

— Ink Review #413: Monteverde ITF Blue Black (Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

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