Nathan Zeldes blogs on everyday product design
New on my Possibly Interesting site: Heroes and Barbarians, Propaganda postcards from the Great War.
Showcasing a collection of postcards issued to Italian soldiers in the first world war, in order to urge them to fight in that tragically senseless conflict.
An illuminating, if disturbing, lesson in how to craft hate propaganda.
So here is a wonderfully useful tool from Shachihata: the Artline 710 Long Nib Marker.
What’s the big deal, you ask? Not if you’re a handyman, you don’t!
This funky looking tool is designed to fill a very specific need: marking through deep holes, as when you have to drill holes in the wall to hang some bulky object. Without this tool, you must bend over backwards to find a way to do this, for instance by trying to scractch the wall with a nail inserted through the object, while trying to keep it level. With this marker, this frustrating challenge becomes a piece of cake.
Good idea, Shachihata!
