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Here’s a pencil story for you:
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“I am a little pencil, and my name is H and B, I lie upon the mantelpiece for everyone to see; I’m handled forty times a day, it is a weary life, And when my wits are rather dull, I’m sharpened with a knife!” Florence May Hoatson was a poet in the 1900s. Above is the first section of her poem “The Pencil’s Story”, which beautifully describes the little life of a hardworking pencil and it’s journey from the shelf to the hands of the writer/illustrator. Houston’s verse is a figure of speech about life and it’s meaning. Seemingly, pencils...
A new notebook is a beautiful thing.
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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...