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(And how you can be more creative when choosing/saving one. Spoiler Alert: Jump to Fun Fact #10. Pulp can help! Our Password Books will be your ROI -return on investment- forever more.) Now for the countdown!    1. People choose simple passwords.  Historically (and controversially in Japan, in 2022!), the most popular password was “123456”! It’s giving “At the beginning of the Web” … Let’s move on, people! 2. Nothing is immune from going viral (LOL). Even the nerdy concept of passwords.  “The Password Child” is a term that went viral in March 2023. It refers to using the name...

  There  is generally a stigma attached to office work. Tedious, spiritually painful, long hours, and sometimes a long commute to a place you don’t even want to be. The 90s cult movie ‘Office Space’ encapsulates this malaise perfectly -and with humour - which is probably the only way to look at the absurdity of some office jobs.   Penco turns this idea of boring office supplies on its head and even makes you  - well, me anyway - want to get down and do some serious admin. The products really are that beautiful. Their remit is “casual office supplies”, an...

OK, here’s a question you might have been too scared to ask: What is post-consumer paper? And why does it matter? Think of it this way: all the paper you put into your recycling bin - the empty toilet rolls, the junk mail, the enthusiastically torn wrapping paper from a birthday present, the thank you post-it note you got from your Depop purchase- they all go in the recycling bin, right? The clever paper recyclers then process these bits and bobs and magically turn them into helpful paper products, like the Decomposition Notebook.   This matters for a few reasons: if...

Ever heard of Anna Jarvis? She is basically the mother of Mother’s Day. An activist who cared for soldiers in the aftermath of the American civil war, she organised women’s groups to promote friendship and health. In 1870, alongside another peace promoter and suffragette, Julia Ward Howe, Jarvis lobbied for a "Mother's Day For Peace" where mothers would ask that their husbands and sons were no longer killed in wars. It called upon mothers of all nationalities to unite to promote the "amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace”. Forty years later, in 1907, ‘Mother’s...

It’s clean and fresh. It smells earthy. It’s smooth and perfect.  But a used notebook - a notebook you want to use - is another form of rich beauty. It holds promise. It invites you to share your ideas as paragraphs, dot points, illustrations, stickers, doodles, and saved notes from memorable experiences.  Shopping lists, manifestations, recipes, job contacts, lecture notes. Maybe a phone number scrawled from an admirer. Dog-eared pages, creases, coffee stains, warping and smudged ink infuse the notebook with your personality, memory and story: which is the point, right?  With a beautifully unique approach to design, the Midori...