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If there’s nothing more terrifying to you than a blank page, and plain old horizontal lines feel more like prison than prompt, try this notebook of unusual graph paper. Guaranteed to shift your perspective with each new page.

Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers

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Yes, a stainless steel letter opener might be overkill, but goodness what a gorgeous object. Made by the precision manufacturers at Craighill, a small, Brooklyn purveyor of distinct home goods and accessories.

Tyler Cole VP, Community
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Stainless Steel Desk Knife

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This unique pen lets you mix Cyan, Magenta and Yellow inks to achieve a wide range of colors with a minimal amount of supplies. Perfect for bringing a splash of color to your quick doodles in the field, or color coding your notes.

CMYK Ballpoint Pen

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If you're not Anish Kapoor, you'll have a hard time getting your hands on Vantablack—it's the blackest pigment ever synthesized and exclusively licensed to the artist. What's another artist to do? Pick up a tube of the next best thing! (That is, unless you actually are Anish Kapoor in which...

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World’s Almost Blackest Paint

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In the 1900s, people would collect “ghost signatures” of friends and celebrities in special autograph books called “The Ghost of My Friends”. A fresh, well-inked signature would be folded and pressed on special paper to form elegant and devilish inkblots. Modern replicas of the autograph inkblot albums are produced by...

Inkblot Autograph Album

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Earthlings have gazed at the dark, star-speckled sky for millennia, and this box of postcards compiles 50 impressions, from the scientific—such images plumbed from Galileo’s notebooks or the NASA archives—to the fanciful.

Jessica Leigh Hester Senior Editor + Writer
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Night Sky Postcards

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Is it true that NASA spent millions of tax-payer dollars to develop a pen that didn't rely on gravity while their rival Soviets simply used a pencil? No, but it is true that this pen is one handsome and well-designed writing implement.

Tyler Cole VP, Community
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Original Space Pen

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An elegant pen with a soft gold nib and unparalleled line quality.

Namiki Falcon Fountain Pen

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Achieve brushlike line quality with this Japanese pen's unique nib.

Fude De Mannen Calligraphy Pen

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A stationery accessory straight from the Middle Ages. If  you’re going to seal your letters with wax, you could do worse than a desktop candle furnace.

Eric Grundhauser Senior Producer
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Desktop Candle Furnace

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Ghost paper features embossed rather than printed lines. They’re tactile and unmistakably present, but mostly invisible under direct light, leaving behind clean rows of text.

Ghost Paper Notebook

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Up the elegance of your handwritten notes with this lustrous blue ink from Japan.

Iroshizuku BottledFountain Pen Ink

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Watch the ink travel to the nib as you write with this great demonstrator pen.

Noodler's Clear Demo Pen

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Cartridges make this pen convenient. The classic Bauhaus style makes it beautiful.

Lamy Safari Fountain Pen

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