Perusing the web for pen news, I’m always interested at how much attention that pens, particularly fountain pens, get in India.
But it shouldn’t be surprising, I guess, given how popular pens appear to be there. The Hindustan Times reported recently that overall writing instrument sales have been growing by 10 percent a year, and fountain pen sales by nearly 5 percent.
Diamine has launched The Music Set; this is a fantastic new gift set that is based on the theme of famous music composers.
Inside the Diamine Music Set there are10 brand new fountain pen ink colours, these are in 30ml glass bottles, with each different colour named after a famous music composer.
My inner 12-year-old loves retractable pen mechanisms. While the adult me knows they’re nice because of the practicality, the kid just can’t stop click, click, clicking them. And retractables with a different twist to them, like bolt-action pens, are even better.
When I first heard of these pens, I assumed the word ‘concrete’ was just hype for the way they looked. But no, it’s meant literally – they’re ink pens made from actual concrete.
And it’s not a rare idea, apparently. There are companies making concrete pens in Germany, Taiwan and the US. Nice-looking, envy worthy pens, at that.
Have a horror/scifi/comics fan on your Christmas list this year?
You could go all out and buy him the collectors’ edition Firefly complete series box set, signed and hand-delivered by creative genius Joss Whedon himself.
Or you could just buy him a pen.