National Stationery Week
Sharpen your pencils and break out your fine pens, and take this excuse to use some fancy stationery. Write a loved one, find a pen pal, or even make your to-do list.
Celebrate the resurgence of handwriting by positioning premium pens, notebooks, and stationery as mindful alternatives to digital communication.
- Share your favorite pen/notebook combo with #NationalStationeryWeek
- Challenge: Write one handwritten letter or note this week
- Spotlight: Meet the stationery enthusiasts and their must-have collections
- Mindfulness angle: How handwriting reduces screen time and boosts creativity
The aim of National Stationery Week has always been to get people from across the globe talking about the importance of the written word, as well as encouraging the community to actually focus on writing. Instead of sending emails and texting constantly – this week helps to highlight the need to continue to write letters.
National Stationery Week focuses on championing the process of writing by hand, and encouraging other people from across the globe to put their laptops and tablets down, and instead write with pens and paper instead of via a keyboard. Encouraging others to share details of their favorite stationery items, from their go-to notepad brands to their must-have pens, pencils, sharpeners, and whatever else fills their pencil cases. What a lot of stationery enthusiasts love about National Stationery Week is the fact it offers them the opportunity to learn about all of the items that others store in their pencil cases and see as must-have items.
In a world where people choose to type on a keyboard rather than write by hand, there’s a real concern that the art of the written word will be lost. Which is what makes National Stationery Week such an important celebration, highlighting the vitality of handwriting, as a pose to typing everything on a computer.
For all we know, handwriting may become a trade as dead as lamp-lighting, town crying or door-to-door sales, with people, eventually using only typing to note things down, which of course would be a seriously sad loss. It’s for this reason – among others – that any day, week or month that celebrates the sanctity of the written word is so crucial.