Weapon of choice...
Ok... so InDesign this, Quark that, PC or Mac... blah blah...
What's your weapon of choice for the "wet" analog type you produce?
Mine's a cheap Lamy fountain loaded with purple ink - I have one in aluminium somewhere - but it gets a bit dented - and I've "mis-placed" it somehwere...
Come on now... who's going to be the first to admit to being a Bic-biro lover?
James
14.May.2004 7.28am
Uniball Micro pens, baby. Or a brush and a bottle of jet black ink (really).
14.May.2004 7.41am
It may not be wet, and it may not be 0,1, but I love it nonetheless and its my personal 'weapon of choice'.: 'CretaColor Monolith Graphite'..
14.May.2004 8.44am
Koh-i-noor Rapidomatic 0.3 mm mechanical pencil.
Pilot Fineliner.
Rotring Artpen (calligraphy, various nibs)
14.May.2004 9.31am
A Staedtler mechanical pencil, with a little window that shows what kind of lead is in there (manually set, of course). And much more important: with an eraser!!
hhp
14.May.2004 10.14am
Hrant:
Could you provide a link to that pencil? Sounds wonderful.
Thanks,
Dylan
Pen/Pencil Freak
14.May.2004 10.34am
Staedtler Mechanical Pencils.?
http://62.52.109.14/e4wstaedtler/staedtler/de/eng/home.nsf/?Open&DirectURL=20B7E007439BF29DC1256C0200308A5A
14.May.2004 10.37am
9H 4H and HB pencils. Last days I have been playing with a cheap set of broad nib fountain pens which you have to deep wash and brush every time thye
14.May.2004 10.45am
David got the link; here's mine:
(BTW, I don't use B lead - I just had to twist the ring so you could see the window.)
hhp
14.May.2004 10.47am
Ohhhhhhhh, Hrant. That's sex-saayyyyy!
Now 'fess up -- where'd ya get it?
Tell me, tell me, tell me, please!
14.May.2004 10.57am
I got it about a year ago from a stationary store called "Pepa Paper" in L'Isla, a shopping center on Barcelona's Diagonal boulevard. Before that I used a plastic Pentel mechanical pencil, which was really almost as good (just not as sex-saayyyyy).
hhp
14.May.2004 11.08am
Gotcha. Thanks! By the way, Fredrik, my hat's off to you. When I'm not looking for high tech, I use a General's Sketching Pencil for rough sketching -- the one with the super wide lead, like a carpenter's marking pencil. Sharpen it with my ol' Marine Corps K-BAR knife.
14.May.2004 2.42pm
Berol Draughting Pencil.
14.May.2004 3.00pm
Going off subject a second - does anyone else have a fetish for scanning in 3D objects on their scanner? Check out the warping on this cup...
14.May.2004 3.14pm
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Currently I'm liking my 8H Mars-Lumograph and my 6H Sanford Turquoise pencils. I never much went for soft lead.
14.May.2004 3.26pm
> a fetish for scanning in 3D objects
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/myblob.jpg
Correct guess gets to hold it/them in his/her hand at TypeCon.
hhp
15.May.2004 12.38pm
My Pre-digital WMDs are:
1. Liquitex Acrylic (usually black and white but my bottles are not OS-X native so I had to use thw Classic Red)
2. Steig Pen-Opaque
3. Pelikan tusche
4. My near-and-dear Alteneder ruling pen, and
5. Windser Newton Red Sable
I should also mention rags and jars of water but they don't qualify in the same league as the above. :-)
Chris L
17.May.2004 8.49am
17.May.2004 9.09am
Pilot Hi-Tecpoint V5 Pen, with black ink. No finer writing stick!
17.May.2004 9.26am
Sorry to be a little off topic here, but I couldn't pass the opportunity to rant about the idiotic stylus designs that Wacom has come out with recently.
17.May.2004 9.44am
We are Devo.
17.May.2004 10.07am
Everyday, I use similar tools as Nick, with a Wacom tablet under macX. But when I teach, I ask to students for such things that I used loooong time ago.
http://www.porchez.com/ateliertypo/16
Note that the various rules are just here for baseline and such side things. I can be very dangerous if I see a student starting to use them to draw his typeforms. Very.