Being primarily in the business of fountain pens, we tend to be traditionalists, but this week
we have some strange looking pens to show you. If you shut some people who had
never seen a pen before in a room and asked them to design something to write with, well… I’m still not
sure if they would have arrived at the design for PenAgain and Yoropen, at
least until the coffee had dried up for a good few days.
"Write the
Future"... I think it also came from the future
Yoropen
were founded by Mr. Bao-shen Liu, a father from Taiwan, who sought to improve
pen design and produce something more ergonomic. And to teach good writing habits to children who traditional pens might not suit. It worked, and the Yoropen has
won many international design awards for innovation including the Geneva Salon
2002 International Invention Gold Medal Award. It can be twisted to suit lefties
and righties. It is now spreading worldwide,
finding its way into classrooms, offices and homes – and into our Shrewsbury
shop.
PenAgain
The
PenAgain pen, I think is even more peculiar looking, and approaches pen design
from the other side of the board. I tried it, a just a little sceptically, and it is possible
to write with, and very strange. Here is a good demonstration of how it’s done:
Though
it looks like trying to write vertically, it’s actually quite normal when you’ve
gotten used to it. A conversation starting pen, at £8.25. The PenAgain encouranges
a healthy, natural wrist posture, and minimises writing cramp. And it’s also
good if you want to give that gnarly bit of skin on your middle finger a bit of
a break from your other pens.
All the Yoropens and PenAgains, on our website together.
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