Anti-KFC Pen

As part of an Anti-KFC campaign, peta2, an animal rights group, held a contest to make a stand against KFC’s animal treatment. The contest required contestants to play promotional bobblehead pens that I’ve seen in the past have conveyed positive messages. peta2′s message is loud and clear, but imagine what the details they could have added on to an actual bobblehead doll.

got pens?

I’m going to deviate a little from my typical posts about pens because I stumbled on to this awesome “got pens?” t-shirt. I know it’s a played out slogan that’s been used for a bunch of other products since the early 90′s, but it was still a cool promotional tool for Beyond the Rhetoric, a blog that used the t-shirts as part of a promotion to obtain more backlinks.

Pens for Kids

While we often focus on sending clothing, shoes or other valuables to African nations with limited resources, these items are often less expensive than pens in Africa. Pens for Kids provides a fresh approach to helping impoverished African nations. The mission of Pens for Kids is to provide children in Africa with pens and to assist them with getting an education. Believing that education is the key to improving low standards of living and making more informed decisions, Pens for Kids seeks to enhance these kids’ ability to get an education one pen at a time. Pens for Kids currently has no employees and relies solely on donations of pens and monetary contributions for postage. Regardless of whether they are promotional pens from the doctor’s office, novelty pens from tradeshows, or executive pens from corporate gift sets, every pen can make a difference

Fisher Space Pen

The Space Pen’s incredible design and ability to write in zero gravity created a tremendous buzz among American and Russian astronauts who had been seeking an alternative to the inconvenient grease pencils and plastic slates they had been using. Created by Paul Fisher of Fisher Spacepen Co. in 1966, the Fisher Space Pen was the first anti-gravity pen. It could write upside down, over grease, underwater, and at extreme temperatures (-20° F to +300° F). It also lasts three times longer than other pens and has an estimated shelf life of 100 years. The sleek and crafty design of the Fisher Space Pen has also earned the pen a place as a permanent exhibit in the New York Museum of Modern Art as an outstanding example of industrial art.

While the anti-gravity features of the Fisher Space Pen may not turn as many heads as it once did, people continue to associate the pen with ingenuity and quality. Companies looking to help employees remember the good ol’ days and provide them with a quality pen to show their appreciation for their efforts at work can’t go wrong with an engraved Fisher Space Pen.