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WoodChuck on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 17:38.
I am very pleased that we have a new collaboration with Lisa Laughy, the talented illustrator and creator of Ninth Wave Designs. Lisa’s unique artistic style and her meaningful thinking expressed through her written words have provided inspiration for many who have a strong interest in journaling. A devotee of Moleskinei notebooks and the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencil her Ninth Wave Design Store couples great tips on using Moleskines with the wonderful imagery in her galleries. For a time she offered Moleskine and related items at her on-line store.
Lisa was an early adopter of our California Republic Palomino pencils and became our first internet dealer outside of our own Pencil World eBay store. In this post “The Search for the Wild Blackwing” she created the “pencil bench test” that lead to her selection of Palomino pencils as the successor to the discontinued Blackwing 602.
Recently Lisa informed me of her decision to take down her Ninth Wave Designs blog as she has not consistently posted for some time now. I expressed sorrow at the loss of inspiration this would provide to many aspiring artists, illustrators and anyone interested in creative journaling. As a result we came to an agreement that Pencils.com will become the new home for the NWD blog including most of her gallery images and the majority of her creative posts which demonstrate her unique perspective on journaling, art, books, history and even mathematics.
So with the outset of Spring the NWD blog migration season is in full swing and will continue for a week or so more until its new nest is completely built alongside the Palominos, Blackwings and a growing list of pencil species here at Pencils.com. Image posts will be part of the NWD Moleskine Gallery or the Alchemy Notebook Gallery in Creativity Studio. Other posts will find their way to the Journals page within the Inspired Writing section. More pencil specific posts will find their roost in the Collectors Corner. All these posts will also congregate in the Ninth Wave Designs Blog group page assuring that the recently threatened flock Lisa so lovingly nourished remains a protected species.
I thank Lisa for her support in this collaboration and hope that someday we’ll see her make new additions to her very creative body of work we are proud to have provided a new home for. Also she does retain the Ninth Wave Designs Café Press store so I would be remiss in not mentioning that here.