Function 004- SF Pen Show

Tom and Mica talk about the San Francisco Pen Show, design, electronics, plastic, pens, pencils, ink, software, measuring water color light-fastness, and the AxiDraw plotter.

San Francisco Pen Show

• San Francisco Pen Show
• The Pen Addict
• The Erasable Podcast
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Art and Design Books

• House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration
• Lance Wyman: The Visual Diaries 1973—1982
• Medieval manuscripts blog

Pencils

• Mobius + Ruppert (M+R) POLLUX Brass Pencil Sharpener
• Pentel P203
• Blackwing Pencils Blackwings really aren't all the same hardness! I have made more measurements since then.

Pens

• Jinhao Fountain Pens
• Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Stainless Steel 7 Pen Artists Set
• Kaweco Liliput Steel Fireblue Pocket Fountain Pen - Medium Nib
• Crayola 58-7858 Ultra-Clean Washable Broad Line Markers, 40-Count
• Pilot Parallel Pen 2-Color Calligraphy Pen Set, with Black and Red Ink Cartridges, 1.5mm Nib

Ink

• KWZ Standard Thief's Red
• KWZ Standard Grapefruit

Plotters

• AxiDraw
• Watanabe Instruments
• HHIP 4401-0011 Granite Surface Plate, Grade B, Ledge 0, 12" x 9" x 3"

Paper

• Rhodia №18 Staplebound NotePad 8.25 x 11.75-Inch (18000C)

Watercolor light fastness

• Paint testing
• Red lightfastness

Electronics

• Monsanto MV1 LED
• Vacuum tube data sheets

Plastics

• Pencil hardness test

Software

• Inkscape
• XML
• Inkscape driver writer
• LTspice
• Perl
• Python