It was such a fun night of Traveler’s Notebook Meetup! We started from our shop at 6pm last night with drinks, snacks and stickers from Traveler’s Company We slowly made our way to Coffee Tossey two blocks away. At the coffee shop, we set up a table for weighing competition and a table with washi tapes, stamps, and other fun journalling accessories. Everyone hung out and shared their journals with each other. The weighing competition was held at 9pm and the winner is Andy @newyorkvialosangeles with his Traveler’s Notebook at 1.7 pound! Wow! Thank you everyone who stopped by!

Our next beloved artist is Becky @wellspringwrites. Becky has taught many calligraphy workshops at Yoseka. She lives right in Sunnyside, a short walk from the shop! Many of you already know Becky and may have taken one or two calligraphy workshops with Becky at Yoseka. Neil and I first contacted Becky to see if she would be interested in teaching some workshops using our space. We are forever grateful to Becky because she took a chance on our new little shop and partnered with us in making our long dreamt of workshops possible! Over the past year, we have gotten to...

Our next artist is Miwa. When you walk into our shop, Miwa’s works are right by the entrance. It’s hard not to notice the colorful ceramics and we love how her bright pieces add so much more to our shop. Miwa is a ceramics artist originally from Tokyo and now living in Sunnyside. She creates her art pieces just a few blocks away from us at Sculpture Space NYC. Each of her works is unique and an abstract mix of Japanese tradition and pop elements that she has found inspiration from while living in Japan, Ohio and now NYC (swipe right...

Thoka is the second artist this week who has been a great partner for us at Yoseka. We met Thoka at the shop and after chatting and participating in a couple of Yoseka happy hours together, got to know each other better and become friends! Thoka @thokamaer is an amazing illustrator and you can find her works featured on many publications like the New York Times, Medium, Buzzfeed and other brands too. She is so talented, smart and funny, and we’re so happy to have been able to meet her through the store. Earlier this year, she designed and hand drew our...

This past year, we’ve met many people through our shop. Neil and I are often amazed by how many people we’ve met. We appreciate everyone who occasionally stops by to chat with us, comes in just to say hello, or introduce out of town friends to us and the shop, and we’re grateful to have been connected to so many great people this year! On this week leading up to our one year anniversary, we’d like to share five artists who we’ve met though the shop. They have not only become a really important part of the store, but we...

Happy August! Last month we just started planning for our one year anniversary (very last minute I know!) We are glad everything is coming together. Leading to our one year next week, we will be hosting a Traveler’s Notebook meetup, giving away stickers and posting the artists we work with throughout this past year 😄 In July, we had many beautiful new additions and two workshops. The photos in the middle are the workshops we had: Writing Circle with Cori and Drawing Night with Meagan @meaganillustrates We also set up Traveler’s Stamp Caravan for anyone who wants to stop by and customize...

Lin Chia Ning (LCN) is a talented Taiwanese artist who loves stationery and who loves to hand craft beautiful stationery. Her stationery ranges from her early works of hand carved stamps, washi tapes, dioramas with mushrooms and gemstones, distressed papers, to the recent vintage labels and many of her iconic stamps. She draws inspirations from nature, vintage items and uses watercolor to create an unreal and magical world. On top of her busy life, she’s published a book in Taiwan too! Here are some of her recent designs. And just like her dioramas, each individual box feels like it’s frozen...

Kokuyo Surveying Field Books 60th Anniversary Editions. It became a standard item for construction site since the late 1950s in Japan. It's slim and compact and it fits to pocket on a working uniform, and its hard cover is great for writing outdoors. These features were popular among field workers and on-site professionals. For the 60th anniversary, Kokuyo releases limited-edition that has a motif of the animals with a pocket: Koala, Echidna, Wombat, Kangaroo, Sugar Glider, Numbat. The series was designed for field survey, so some come with a specific grid for its original purpose. Here’s how the animals like to...

50 years ago today on July 20, 1969, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 made history, becoming the first manned spaceflight to land on the moon. The Fisher Space Pen was first used on the Apollo 7 space mission in 1968 after 2 years of testing by NASA, and has been used on all manned space flights since then. The Space Pen refill is pressurized and designed to write under zero-gravity as well as extreme weather (Ink relies on gravity to come out. If it’s used upside-down for a long time, the ink stops flowing.) For the 50th anniversary, Fisher releases...

Traveler’s Company at Yoseka Stationery. We are excited to announce a few special events with Traveler’s Company for the upcoming month. They are sending over their Stamp Caravan along with some stickers and souvenirs from Japan to our store. The Stamp Caravan is a set of stamps designed by Traveler’s Company. It is usually found in their flagship store, the Traveler's Factory, in Nakameguro, Japan, and it’s for anyone to decorate their journals and write down special memories for each visit. This year, Traveler’s Company is sending their Stamp Caravan to different shops around the world for Traveler's fans to visit and use at their...