Your sense of smell is incredibly evocative, probably more so than any of the other four senses. Random scents can conjure up long-buried memories; they can make you smile with pleasure (newly-baked bread, fresh coffee), or wrinkle your nose in disgust. Some - like petrol, ......Read More
In May last year, we celebrated 10 years of Cult Pens - 10 years since the online shop sprouted in the back room of a small stationery shop in Dartmouth, and took over a corner of the internet. I was sitting in another corner, nearby, ......Read More
Would air-neebody like to win a 32GB iPad Air 2? Yes Good, because Pilot have generously donated one to us to give away to a lucky customer. Spend £25 on Pilot products from now until 16th December and we'll automatically enter you into the draw ......Read More
We have six beautiful Platinum snow globes to give away. Spend £100 on Platinum from now until 16th December and we'll automatically put you into the draw to win one of them. The Platinum #3776 Great Lakes series of limited edition fountain pens, celebrating the five ......Read More
The Big Brother has nothing to do with relatives, George Orwell's 1984 or reality TV. It is, in fact, an ENORMOUS Kaweco fountain pen, the sort the BFG might appreciate. You can't actually use it to write with, but you could hang it from the ......Read More
Fountain Pen Day is a day to embrace, promote and share the use of fountain pens. It's on the first Friday each November, which makes it November the 4th this year. It's a good excuse to talk about fountain pens, either in person, or on ......Read More
Everybody knows of Great Ormond Street Hospital. it's a rock to cling to in a stormy sea, a bit of light in a dark room. It is, quite simply, the best place to be if you're not very big and not very well. Founded in ......Read More
Once again Cult Pens sponsored the aptly-named 'Cult Pens Award' - a prize for Dr Manuel Cresciani's architecture students at Northumbria University. As before, the students were challenged with creating a series of six visions of a chosen street in such a way that viewers ......Read More
Picture the scene: green hills, grey crags, blue water and white puffy sheep. You're in the Lake District, and you're there courtesy of Derwent, one of the world's leading brands when it comes to artists' materials. You could go for a stroll, embark on a ......Read More
Cult Pens Get Inktensely Messy! We don't just sit around answering the phone or writing newsletters or wandering around the warehouse picking orders, you know. Oh no. Sometimes we spread the Tiverton Gazette over the meeting room table, dish out some Derwent and get arty (well ......Read More
What do Dolly Parton, Joanna Lumley and Steven Spielberg have in common? Well not a great deal, it must be said, apart from the fact that they are the same age - yes, 70! - as Pentel, one of the most recognisable pen brands in ......Read More
Two classic designs that will bring back memories for many of us - the Parker Jotter and the Silvine Notebook. The Jotter has been around since 1954, and while it wasn't the first ballpoint pen, it quickly became one of the most popular, with over 750 ......Read More
Scafell Pike, Herdwick sheep, Beatrix Potter, Donald Campbell's Bluebird, Lake Windermere, Alfred Wainwright, Kendal Mint Cake, William Wordsworth, Swallows and Amazons. Just a few of the diverse reasons why you might be familiar with the beautiful area of north-west England known as the Lake District. ......Read More
"Beep, beep." For those of you old enough to remember, ACME featured heavily in Wile E Coyote's arsenal in his ongoing battle against the Road Runner, usually featuring some device that didn't work, or did work, but not in the way he wanted. Ironically, 'acme' ......Read More
While we look forward to the lovely people who bring our bacon butties on a Monday morning, most visitors to Cult Pens tend to be couriers, the Royal Mail, lorries containing vast rolls of bubble-wrap or lost people with pick-ups looking for Jewson. So we ......Read More
Staggeringly, over 100 million (yes, million) Cross Classic Centuries have been sold in the last 70 years. Quite an achievement; they must be doing something right! To celebrate, and also to commemorate 170 years of Cross innovation, they have created the extremely special 21st Century ......Read More
Start Bay notebook covers - as the names suggests if you're familiar with the West Country - are made on the south coast of Devon. They're leathery (very leathery) and tough (very tough) and really nice. They are the vision of Peter Cattermole, and are hand-made ......Read More
Jessica Palmer produces the sort of art that - if you're a talentless twit such as myself - makes you really wish you could draw. So it's a good job that colouring books for adults is an avenue into which she's ventured, because at least ......Read More
The 2016 Derwent Art Prize is currently open for entries, but not for very much longer - the closing date is the 1st of June. There's £12,500 in prizes up for grabs, with £6000 going to the first prize winner. Eighty of the works submitted ......Read More
It's been almost 15 years since 'Record Breakers' last aired, even longer since the late great Roy Castle and the McWhirter brothers were its hosts, and longer still (60 years!) since the first publication of the Guinness Book of World Records. But records are still ......Read More
Buy any Cross products from us for the chance to win a BAFTA nominee gift bag - the same set of luxury gifts given out to the stars attending the BAFTA Awards, including a Cross Apogee Medalist fountain pen. Competition closes 19th February 2016. Entry form ......Read More
Well, where on earth did that year go? After a full-on 2014 completely rebuilding our website and computer systems we were planning on a calm, quiet 2015. In the event it was relatively calm, but definitely not quiet. During 2015 we added lots of new brands ......Read More
