Crónicas Estilográficas

Last September I started a collaboration with the magazine Shumi-no Bungubako (趣味の文具箱) under the generic title “Confessiones of a Spanish Pe...

I can count up to eight pen shows (but what is a pen show, anyway?) held this past November—Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid, Budapest, Paris, Melbou...

Within a newspaper, there is often tension between two departments that are, at least in theory, far apart: accounting and editorial. While ...

New pens are widely advertised―and that makes sense. Makers need to recoup the investment made to develop and market them. The fanfare and d...

To anyone who has read my texts on the Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) over the years, it will come as no surprise that I am not parti...

Once upon a time, Lamy was a German brand... and Japanese tourists in Germany would buy Lamy pens to bring them back home as souvenir ( omiy...

In 2015 , a “techincal partnership” between luxury brand Davidoff and Sailor gave rise to the Very Zino line of pens which were, in actual t...