Coleto refills in new metallic, pastel and neon colors. Coleto is a multi pen system by Pilot. You pick a Coleto pen body and select a few refills to make your own custom multi pen. With lots of pen bodies and refill colors, it’s hard to finalize decision sometimes, and Pilot is not making the decision easier 😂 End of last year, Pilot released these 18 new colors in addition to the original 15. Colors such as pastel and metallic are used across many Pilot pens — paint makers, juice up pens and now in Coleto refills. Maybe fountain pen...

Thank you again for everyone who made 2019 possible for us. Looking forward to the exciting new start next year. We are taking the next two weeks off from the shop. Not planning to travel far so you might catch us popping in and out of the shop. We will be back 1/15 😊 Now we have tons of time on our hand, any suggestions for shops/restaurants in New York? We feel a bit like tourists in our own city these days 😅

Merry Christmas! This has been an eventful year for us. We’ve been able to open our shop, grow our team and become friends with even more stationery lovers. Thank you for helping us make all this possible with your incredible support, kindness, and encouraging words. Merry Christmas, happy holidays and Happy New Year!We have many people to thank: Soraya @sorayadesignsthings and Paula @paulaandrea.me for giving our visitors the best Yoseka experience; Meagan @meaganillustrates for hosting Drawing Nights; Becky @wellspringwrites for hosting Calligraphy workshops; all of you who have travelled far and shared kind and encouraging words; all of our local supporters (we have the best neighbors!) and special...

Photos from the past two days — thank you again to everyone who stopped by. It’s a wonderful space and opportunity to bring Yoseka to East Village. We will be back to the Standard East Village for one more weekend. For our Sunnyside shop, we will be doing extended holiday hours and we will be open every day from 12/18-24, till right before Christmas 🎄 Special thanks to our friend Ginger for being a Christmas elf with us all weekend 😊

bLen ballpoint pen by Zebra. Since last December, Zebra has sold more than 5 millions of bLen. Wow! We think it’s pretty fair to call bLen a superstar in the 2019 pen world 😀 The pen is a collaboration between Zebra and a famous Japanese design firm, nendo. The collaboration set a high expectation even before the release, but it probably had less impact in America, since nendo is lesser known here. The design of bLen covers not only the fresh look but also a well thought out inside. Near the tip of the pen, it has a brass component to lower...

Happy Holidays! Can't believe it's almost the end of the year! In November, we had a fun Drawing Night with Meagan @meaganillustrates; we went to The Standard Hotel to start preparing for our upcoming popups and we had lots of memorable visits. The November additions are very festive! From top left to bottom right: Stationery Sets by RossiHoliday Cards from Spaghetti & MeatballsMoon Calendar by ReplugHobonichi Weeks MT, Mega, 5 years and a few more coversPlanners from HightideTravel Tools Collection by Traveler’s CompanyMetal Stamps by LCNHoliday themed cards, mt tape and BandeSailor Pro Gear Angel’s DelightSailor Pro Gear King of PenNahe bags from...

 In this year’s Hobonichi 2020 Guide Book, there’s a feature on thin and small stationery. It’s a fun list of portable stationery that are popular among Hobonichi users. On the list, there’s stationery such as pre-cut Kitta washi tape, and other stationery especially designed to be used in planners. I don’t think these stickers are on the list but the planner stickers is also designed for planners. In the photo, the tiny moons, yoga poses, circles and arrows are all for marking the special days on schedule. They are tiny, cute and very hard to stop using. Thank you Midori for...

Happy Monday! This week is the last week of November, and it’s also the week that’s leading up to December. It’s a special planner week since many 2020 planners officially start right now or end of the week. Are you excited as we are to start your new 2020 planner? 🙌 Here is the reminder list of planner state dates sorted by time:Hightide Square Monthly: October 2019Hightide Les Agenda de L'Année: October 2019Hobonichi Weeks: 11/25/2019 (today)Minute Manager: 11/25/2019 (today)Traveler’s notebook 2020 Diary Weekly: 12/16/2019Hobonichi Cousin (Weekly schedule): 12/30/2019Hobonichi Cousin (Monthly schedule): December 2019Hobonichi Planner (Monthly schedule): December 2019MD Notebook Diary...

Old school ballpoint pens. From top to bottom: Rabbit F220, Taiwan, released in 1966; Mitsubishi No.460, Japan, released in 1973; and Corniva 51, Italy, released in 1965. Most of these pens are still available since their original releases but we heard No.460 was discontinued earlier this May 😢It’s interesting these three pens from different countries have the same orange and black tip/cap, but it might not be a coincidence. BiC Orange was released in 1961 after BiC Cristal’s success in the 50’s. Rabbit F220 was the first ballpoint pen made locally in Taiwan and they made it really clear that...

The Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil by Uni. Each time you press and lift the pencil from the paper, the lead is slightly rotated by 9 degrees. With 40 presses, the lead makes a full 360 circle. In this video, we mark a white dot on the black section, and you can see the dot making a full circle back.Kuru Toga came out in 2008 and for the past 10 years, Uni has made many different versions such as metallic grip, sliding sleeve and soft grip. In 2017, Uni even came out with a new version that rotates twice as fast...