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Video from the opening of Detour in Berlin. An excited crowd hovering over artworks, gloved hands gingerly examine each notebook. What a night!
Patrick Ng posts about his plans for the latest Travel Cafe:
This is the second year I host a Travel Cafe thematic promotion at Festival Walk store. In addition to this year's larger promotion at Times Square city'super, we still have a more content driven promotion at LOG-ON in Festival Walk. This Polaroid is part of the concept development material I did. In it a Bialetti moka express, Moleskine city notebook with Gfeller Casemakers cover painted with black leather shoe polish (Thanks to Steve Light who taught me that!), Midori Traveler's Notebook, metal globe and cardboard card case and a Minolta A camera. I've designed a postcard which will be freely distributed before the fair in mid-June 2008.
The fun thing about this fair is that other than just showing people travel related products, there will be a small talk with speakers from Lomography, Lonely Planet and Moleskine.
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Forget Facebook. The hottest way to communicate right now is via a quaint old technique known as putting pen to paper. Sales of writing equipment at Selfridges are at their highest for almost ten years, suggesting that some of us are tiring of texts, networking websites and e-mails.
But has a popular backlash against irritating text jargon and MySpace really begun, or has writing become merely the latest prosaic activity to be rebranded for people with more money than sense? Selfridges has reported a big increase in its luxury stationery sales, as well as a 30 per cent rise in luxury pen sales compared with last year. Sales of the upmarket pen Montegrappa have grown by more than 200 per cent over the past six weeks.
It seems that London’s super-rich have found a new way to fritter away their lightly taxed billions. After all, billionaire scribes could always make do with a chewed pencil if they had no interest in status stationery.
Carolina Long
Times Online
[Thanks Joyce!]
FORT MADISON, Iowa - The nib of a pen _ the part that puts ink to paper _ is at the center of lawsuit against a man whose former bosses want to keep him from selling their secrets to a Chinese pen company.
Fort Madison's Sheaffer Manufacturing Co. and BIC Corp., are suing Ted B. Sharpe, of La Harpe, Ill. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Davenport, seeks to keep Sharpe from selling the century-old Iowa company's proprietary information, mainly the "Fountain Pen Manual."
The lawsuit said that Sharpe worked for Sheaffer as a process engineer and supervisor in charge of fountain pen nib manufacture and design from September 1974 to February 2003. That's when he was part of companywide layoffs, it said.
The pen companies claim in the lawsuit that they learned Sharpe was going to become a paid consultant for a Chinese manufacturer and provide Sheaffer's proprietary information to that company.
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