Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. What Switzerland is to watches, many would say Germany is to writing ...

Today’s businessmen are able to keep pace while on the go with BlackBerries or iPhones or portable devices with increasingly speedy processors and intuitive user interfaces. But in the 1800s the ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

German design firm Paperlux Studio has collaborated with stationery brand Leuchtturm1917 to develop a ballpoint pen made from milled aluminium and brass that evokes a design from the company’s past.

In this age of digital supremacy, it’s reassuring to know the pen is alive and well. And nowhere is it thriving quite like it is in Bassano del Grappa, a picturesque medieval village in Veneto, Italy, ...

Nerd out on Star Wars while still maintaining your design cred. When Cross was established in 1846, it built its brand on making gold and silver casings for wooden pencils. Since then it has ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

PROVIDENCE — When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed his first executive orders Wednesday shortly after being inaugurated, he did it with a pen made by Providence-based A.T. Cross, the company said ...

There are a growing number of Windows tablets with support for digital pens that let you write or draw on the screen or hover the pen over the display to move an on-screen cursor or perform other ...

The art of putting pen to paper has undeniably dwindled in the past few decades, but for a small number of dedicated enthusiasts, nothing beats traditional fountain pens. Elegant tools for creative ...