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...marks but also the making of the instruments with which to make them. In the 15th century one did not walk into a shop and buy a pencil. One had to make the silverpoint or the twig of charcoal. One had to cut the pen and shape its nib from a quill. All of this was wound in with the technique of drawing and helped to determine its intensity. That is one of the reasons why small drawings (and most of Leonardo's drawings were small, in some cases hardly more than thumbnail sketches) can be so involuntarily revealing, just...
...Borgdorff, managing partner of fund investments at Amsterdam's NIB Capital Private Equity, which has j11.5 billion to invest in private equity partnerships, says bringing in outside business people to salvage portfolios is part of a general restructuring of the VC industry in Europe. "Venture capital needs to rethink its business model," Borgdorff says. Smaller VC firms are already testing new models. London's Ariadne Capital, for example, acts as a sales agent for its companies, taking a slice of the revenues as they are created, rather than waiting for an exit strategy - like an initial public offering...
...arrives when I'm invited to test the first Chatpen, developed in-house by Anoto. As writing instruments go, this one weighs no more than your average Mont Blanc and is about as long. But it's twice as thick: the infrared camera, which peeks out from under the nib of a basic ballpoint, seems to take up a lot of room. Most folks would find this pen too fat for comfortable writing. Wiebe assures me this is only a prototype, and the final product will be practically indistinguishable from an ordinary...
This classic fountain pen comes in blue, red, brown marble and basic black, and Bob Slate salesperson Brian Oles says it's a favorite year-round. Sporting a solid 18 carat gold nib, the Preface has a simple, clean design and minimal leakage that has received rave reviews from customers...
...thanks to the Stanford company--inventors of the incredible, indelible Sharpie--gel pens have found their redeemer. The uni-ball Gel Impact 1.0mm ($2.49) gushes ink like a rollerball without bleeding through the page. A blue or black fountain-like line without all the pretension or nib sucking, imagine that! The Gel Impact has sent shockwaves through the pen design community with its ultra-modern silver thatched pattern. Lest you lose track of your ink usage, a clear window with incremental dots keeps tabs on your depletion. It's not a goopy gel or a fountain that floweth...