News — notes

Like the ever-trending mullet, we’ll begin this week’s blog with business at the front, and then we can party at the back end, OK? Let’s go! For all your notebook needs when travelling over the holidays to see your family (or *awkward cough* get away from them), this longer-than-usual list will do you no wrong. No need to choose wisely - just choose- because every option here is exceptional:  Season Paper Small Notebooks and Journals Karst Pocket Journal Karst Twin Pack Journal A5 / Plain + Ruled - one for you, one for your friend.  Blank Brown Paper Journal Large...

Pulp Has Pleasing And Beautiful 2024 Diaries You’ll Actually Want to Use (please note the use of italics for emphasis.) Chums, I know it’s relatively early to be yapping on about 2024 diaries, but time moves in mysterious ways. It can slither at a snail’s pace across prosaic routines and travel down the highway of everyday life like a speed demon. Who knows what mood it’ll be in when it wakes up?’ So, while we’re sitting pretty here on Friday the 13th, you can bet your bottom dollar that while you’re avoiding black cats and prepping Halloween lolly bags, it’ll...

(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...

Imagine submerging your used computer in soil. Along with all the notes, memos and E-vites that you’ve sent and received through it. Yeah, the same computer that cost you three grand and is now obsolete after only a few years. So you dig a hole, place the laptop in the hole, then cover and water. Wait 3 weeks, and guess what you’ll get? Yep, a whole lotta nuthin’. Actually, worse than nothing: E-waste is pretty toxic! BUT, what if you had used notes, cards, old messages, and wedding invitations that could be planted and sprout a beautiful garden filled with...