It’s important to break out of your Instagram echo chamber every now and again. That was my key takeaway from interviewing Joe Kershaw, who runs the Online Pen Company (you may remember they provided the Staedtler Lignum for my recent review).
Kershaw is not what you might expect a pen company owner to be like.… Continue reading
Tag: behind the pen
Next up in the ‘behind the pen’ interview series: Roy van den Brink-Budgen, the brains behind Izods Ink, Montblanc specialists, UK retailer of Leonardo and Nettuno, and dealer in Robert Oster and Krishna inks. I’m a repeat customer of Izods — along with Chatterley Luxuries in the US, I hit ‘refresh’ on the Izods ‘what’s… Continue reading
Part of my mission in 2019 is to write more about this wonderful community, not just pens. So I’m dusting off my interview series, “behind the pen”. And my first victim? John Hall, owner of one of the UK’s best-loved stationery shops, Write Here. Let’s see what John has to say about the issues of… Continue reading