lines and lining

inspired give away, originally uploaded by gorgeoux.


surprise gifts from Adaptive Path, originally uploaded by gorgeoux.

The pencil case seems terribly anachronic to me, but how enjoyable and, strangely, how functional! I wouldn't want my felt tip pens to escape in my bag and get too colourful on their neighbours. And while I don't see myself locking the pencil case to anything, as it suggests, it still is the best event giveaway I've seen in a while, well targeted at people who still work with pen and paper. On the downside, it was accompanied by a notebook that was too thick, too narrow, too unclean—some graphics adorned each page, which was also lined. The fact that many of the conference participants used it took me by surprise: since ethnographers, researchers in general, and designers still work with pen and paper, isn't it to be expected that they'd have strong preferences for this kind of notebook or the other?

The Sharpie markers are even more welcome, if that's possible. They were given to us by Adaptive Path during the workshop, to better grasp and represent our learnings. Having traveled all the way from California for us, they probably saw no reason to go back, so at the end of the session we were invited to take them home. There were also many types of paper, and colourful crayons, but Sharpies were my choice, and they fitted quite nicely in the pencil case above, next to my other toys. Yum!