LAMY noto 283 ballpoint pen
LAMY noto 283 ballpoint pen in blue–silver This is the LAMY noto 283 ballpoint pen in blue–silver . The seller calls the colour “Midnight Blue”, while the selection box says “Imperial Blue”; LAMY’s own catalogues generally identify this standard combination more simply as blue–silver , and some older listings call it night blue–silver . It is worth emphasising that the noto is not a costly metal pen disguised as a design object. It is something more intellectually interesting: an inexpensive, largely plastic pen whose value comes from the intelligence of its form. The story of the LAMY noto The noto was designed by the celebrated Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa and introduced in 2008 . It brought together two complementary design cultures: LAMY’s German commitment to functional modernism and Fukasawa’s quieter Japanese approach to everyday objects. Fukasawa’s own project archive dates the noto to 2008, while LAMY describes it as a writing instrument reduced almost en...