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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
By Brett Braley
I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like
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I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like

I spent the last three months of 2022 working at Kinnegar Brewing, an Irish craft brewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For homebrewers who want to learn what it’s actually like to work in a brewery, an internship like this provides invaluable lessons—including lessons that can be applied to being a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging
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The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging

We'll always be big fans of desk mats. While our previous favorites were standard cutting mats, those were quickly replaced once we found out about the ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat. The ALTI features a premium vegan leather surface on one side and plush felt on the other, with a…

By Ben Dahl
Dango Products Pen Tray
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Dango Products Pen Tray

Depending on how serious you are about your personal writing instruments, you probably already have at least one or two pens from Dango Products. If you do, you’re familiar with their approach to manufacturing. Namely, they make attractive, durable pens and desk accessories out of machined aluminum. This pen tray…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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“The Sound of Drawing” Amplified Friction Pencil

Art is, by nature, fluid. It takes virtually any form, utilizes different media, and can even change the way we see the world. Designer Takuma Yamazaki has taken the simple pencil and made it aural art via the “Sound of Drawing” Amplified Friction Pencil that takes the sound of writing…

By Amos Kwon
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The Sidekick Notebook Fits Around the Other Stuff on Your Desk

You know how much we love our notebooks and old school pen and paper note-taking here at Cool Material. But when you're sitting at your desk in front of the computer and knocking items off the to-do list, it can be difficult to find the right spot for a notebook…

By Ben Dahl
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Free Online Certificates that Look Great on Your Resume

Whether you’re looking to learn a new skill, bolstering your resume a bit to help you stand out in a competitive job market, or trying to pivot into an entirely new profession, certificate courses are excellent tools people drastically undervalue. The best part is that a lot of these certificates…

By Maxwell Barna
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Lay-Flat Notebooks Perfect for Your Desk

Spend any amount of time on Cool Material and you'll know we're huge fans of pocket notebooks, journals, cahiers, memo pads, composition books and any  collections of blank pages we can use to commit thoughts, ideas, and projects to paper. We love all of them. But there will always be…

By Ben Dahl
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Word. Notebooks Rad Collection

It’s time to dip back into the era of brick-sized mobile phones, calculator watches, and Alf. In other words, it’s time to get Rad. Our latest series of Word. Notebooks, the pocket notebook brand we launched in 2012, is inspired by the ‘80s and early ’90s, a time when when…

By Mike Newman
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