School season is fully underway, and students have started wearing in their new supplies. Even those of us who are well beyond our student years can still appreciate the good design of many of those old standbys: pink erasers, chrome pencil sharpeners, black-and-white composition books. For people who love "the aesthetics of twentieth-century education," Canadian shop Uppercase carries the classics...
In addition to flashcards, clipboards, and pen cups, they carry a selection of original artwork inspired by the classroom. All prices listed are Canadian dollars, and the site can be viewed here. A few of our picks:
Old School Erasers, $2 each
Old School Book, $25
Prepositionest Collage by Fred Free, $175
Classic Pencil Sharpener, $18
Anatomy Class Pig, $40
Hand Cut Illustrated Flashcards by Helen Eady, $200
Desk Calendar by mmmg, $25
Classic Desk Bell, $4
Cork Memo Cup, $3.50
Framed Digital Print by Frank Chimero, $150
For more from Uppercase, click here.
Found via SwissMiss.
pink pearls rock the block, look just as nice (if not nicer) than the Old School version, and are probably cheaper. let's no reinvent the wheel here.
http://www.dickblick.com/zz215/18/
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I looked at the pencil sharpener above, turned, looked at the one behind me in my classroom, turned back to my monitor and laughed. It's impossible to be nostalgic about what is ubiquitous in your life. Funniest part is watching the kids try to get a pencil sharp in it; after working one or two down to a stub they usually give up and get a mechanical pencil from a friend.
And Pistachio nailed it...I can walk fifty yards to the supply room and make my own eraser as candy treat display with some swell pink pearls. I won't though, because the kids' mechanical pencils come with erasers.
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25$ for a designer notebook? Ha! I get awesome Japanese notebooks for a dollar each. I kind of covet that Jen Corace horse diary, though.
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