BINGO

A slew of new pickups and stash stuff from always-on-the-lookout DIET HTK from July SF trip. 

BINGO MARKER 

I’m never really on the lookout for Bingo Markers. This is the first one i’m adding to the marker collection.  I see them more often than not at dollar shops, but I guess I never really considered them to be “true” black markers. In fitting with the criteria, this thing does make a black mark, and I guess it says it is a marker right there on the label.

So i guess from now on Bingo markers are getting accepted into the archives…but squeeze shoe polish bottles still are not. 

Bingo markers are good drippy fun. The nib on this thing is pretty much a cotton ball. Watery ink that makes good lines with character until the nib gets messed up. Good on paper, outdoors not so much.

ARTSKILLS PERMANENT

What a wacky marker silhouette. Artskills is predominantly a dollar store brand that makes these jumbo markers for kids. About a 3mm chisel tip on this marker. Most of this marker is hollow barrel for sure. Nice “comic” style PERMANENT label on the side, grey and black triangle motif resembles a backgammon board. Classy. Bit of kick in the smell of this thing. Nothing too fierce, just a bit of something for the kids to sit back and relax to.

BROAD TIP 9MM ( DAISO )

Daiso dissapointment this SF trip. The downtown one didn’t really have the goods. DIET HTK snagged this one from some other location. Medium weight plastic bends in a bit when barrel squeezed. Simple screened white-on-black labeling. 9MM broad tip. Makes good clean marks. Efficient, well designed product.

WINDOW MARKER

This little troublemaker, courtesy of DIET again. Cap flips open to reveal circular sponge tip about the size of a quarter. Ink comes out super fast of this thing, leaving a big drippy mess. These the sort of markers that tend to bust open in your bag and dirtying up all your stuff. Gonna sticker seal the lid shut on this thing and double bag it. Got my eye on you, Window Marker.

GARDENCRAFT TERRA COTTA MARKER JUMBO

Got this at the San Rafael Michael’s. From the folks at Marvy Uchida, this jumbo marker is labeled and branded to appeal to gardeners that like to paint things onto their terracotta pots. The label example shows a killer whale and a pair of cherries. Good product. Nice sturdy tip, good ink flow, solid construction. 

JUMBO MARKER

Dollar store find. I got one that is pretty much identical, except this one has the line 

UNSUITABLE FOR USE BY YOUNG CHILDREN 

omitted from the label.

Chisel tip, flimsyish tip. Works well but I can see the nib wearing out rather quickly with use. Which can be a nice quality. Good dark ink. Faint smell. Nice marker.

THAT SHIT CRAY

More marker goodness courtesy of DIET HTK - a bunch of Crayola and Crayola looking markers.

WHITEBOARD MARKER - DAISO

I picked this up as a 3-pack from Daiso. Man, that place fell off. The one on Market Street and the one in Japantown had pretty much no markers. Last time I went to the one in Redwood, they had heaps and heaps of different ones. This is a good quality, well built marker. Nice solid plastic construction. Attractive GREY/BLACK text on gloss white background, with ORANGE pop accents. Bullet tip nib. Medium ink darkness. Makes nice smooth lines. Average marker, good price.

EBERHARD FABER 4000 WATERBASE

Nice simple silhouette. Minimal markings. DOA.  These are common low-cost markers that are generally of good-to-average quality. Peep more of their products here.

DIXON PERMANENT MARKER 

Cheap plastic construction, barrel bends in when pressed. Simple markings on label. Made in Mexico. Chisel tip, similar to Crayola. Really good ink quality though, makes solid nice dark lines. Surprisingly bad product from a quality company like Dixon.

EBERHARD FABER 4000 WATERBASE - SILVER 

Same specs as the one reviewed above, all markings appear in silver. Originally a chisel tip, nib has gone soft and bushy. DOA. Makes ghost lines at this point, will be good for drawing fill-ins.

COLOR GEAR ROSEART MARKER

I have a couple other markers from Roseart in a similar silhouette. This one introduces the ColorGear wordmark first. Lesser quality plastic construction. Conical nib. Makes slightly indigo-tinged dark ink lines. Roseart pretty much makes Crayola bootlegs. The quality isn’t that bad, and the price is a lot cheaper.

CRAYOLA WASHABLE

Classic Crayola silhouette. White barrel, wavy band markings on both ends. Features the curved Crayola wordmark. Washable. Conical nib, nice dark blue/black ink. 

CRAYOLA CHANGEABLES

Classic Crayola silhouette, but a bunch of gimmickry thrown in. This marker is supposed to make black lines, which I guess when written over with some other marker blender, turns the ink orange. Pretty cool design elements on the barrel. Star motif. Crayola wordmark still in the non-serif block format. Conical nib, ink is a bit on the brown side. It’s nice to have a bunch of different markers with different ink tones for drawing, and Crayola seems to have a range of product that has not-quite-black-black ink tones.

CRAYOLA OVERWRITERS

Classic Crayola silhouette, and still more gimmickry thrown in. I don’t even know what this marker is supposed to do. I tried to read the product description, but still don’t understand. Label has un-inspired OVERWRITERS wordmark, and other design elements that looked like they were made on MSPaint. Plastic construction. Seems a bit thin. Barrel bends in a bit when pressed. Conical nib. Makes nice smooth, dark black ink lines.

Jumbolaya

Dollarama pick-up. 

STUDIO JUMBO MARKER - I don’t expect much from Dollar Store markers, unless they are from Daiso. This one is no different. Thin plastic barrel construction, but nice stylized plastic black cap. 10 mm chisel tip, thinner than most. Hey, this is a nice surprise. It actually works quite well. Good coverage, good ink, runs smooth on application. 

DAISO-RONI, THE SAN FRANCISCO TREAT

Daiso scouring over the weekend + a couple that DIET ONE picked up for me and had on stash.

BOARD PERMANENT MARKER - 25 mm chisel tip nib. Great packaging as per usual. Nice durable construction. Simple and uncluttered design layout with nods to color, type, and placement. Good heavy duty marker. No complaints.

MINI DEKA TWIN TIP - Nice twin tip. Any marker bought at Daiso will always be of better than average quality, design and quality wise. This is no exception. Does the trick, nice little inforgraphic on plastic packaging. Good marker.

SAKURA TWIN TIP - I am bias towards Sakura products. This is a nice thick twin tip. Average design, good quality, but just because it’s a Sakura, I hold it in higher esteem. Think i’ll start seeing if there are any opps to make Sakura collab stuff.

LIQUID TYPE TWIN TIP - This is a no frills no name marker, done Japanese style. Bullet tip. High quality, well presented, good layout design and quality. I like it when basics are designed with consideration. If you have to make something anyways, why NOT do it with a bit of flair and attention to detail.

OILY TWIN - Yeah. Nice basic twin tip. Nothing about it to really knock, but nothing to big-up either. I guess I like the Cooper font. And I wouldn’t mind an OILY TWIN baseball-t shirt, with that lettering done in flock. And a matching hat.

LIVE AND LET DAI-SO

Daiso is an amazing concept store that could be the future of discount dollar store concept retail if they made a few cosmetic changes, advertised a bit more, and did some business stuff behind the scenes. Would like to see one of these in every major city. Their product range is quite impressive, and for the most part, all excellent quality, attractive goods. At the shop in SF, the prices were $1.50 for anything. From department to department, all the goods were unique and refreshing. Amazing toy section. Great place for baby supplies. An AMAZING place for getting markers and stationary. All the following markers are good to excellent quality and offer amazing value for money.

PLATINUM CPM-150 –

MARK LINE 1007 –

PERMA 3535 –

ZEBRA PERMANENT –

MARKER TWIN-TYPE –

DAISO STUFFS

Another fine selection of Daiso bought black markers. I don’t understand why they have such a varied selection of similar product, but I am glad they do. All these markers are good to excellent quality and offer amazing value for money. Other non marker purchases I made were. An inflatable toy with a baseball playing fox on it. Black modeling clay.Plastic bag gun shooting streamer toys.

A-PEN TWIN MARKER –

SAKURA – Such a nice light grey blue color combo.

5mm CHISEL TIP –

OIL-BASED TWIN TIP –

ZEBRA RE-USE –

DAISO. THE RIGHT PRICE-O!

More Daiso markers. HUGE fan of Daiso.

ZEBRA MCKEE – I don’t know if this is the new style ZEBRA MCKIE twin tip, but it isn’t anywhere close to as nice looking as the Hi-Mckie. That said it works just as well, an is an excellent quality marker.

OIL MARKER – Nice square-body black marker. Compact and attractive, marks nice and smooth.

PENTEL – Another excellent Pentel marker. According to the packaging photos. This marker is good for drawing huge numbers on runners marathon signs and flags. Oh, I didn’t get this marker at Daiso. I got it from Kinokuniya bookstore in Seattle. That place is amazing, right in the bottom of Chinatown…um International District. Really good selection of books and magazines. They sell Mild Sevens in the grocery store attached.

DAISO IS NICE-O

I got one of these markers from Damian some years ago. And one of them from Jesar. But they are all also available at the Daiso store. Yong Ki took me there when I was in SF on the way to Redwood and the Flea Market. Antique shopping was a bust, everything closed up shop. And we went to the wrong flea market. We went to Dr. Fleas instead of the junk and car boot style one. But Daiso was amazing ! In short, it’s a Japanese dollar store. Well, $1.50. But it’s well worth it. You just have to go to check it out.

10mm – I can’t read the label. For a plastic jacket marker, this thing looks really good. Nice clean layout and colors. Attractive packaging. Works really well. If it was metal jacket, It would easily be one of my Top 5 favorite markers.

15mm – Same excellent quality as the one above, just with a 15mm broad tip.

DRY ERASE – This marker looks more complex than it is. In my head, I imagined that the ink comes out of that white top bit where the sponge is. When I opened it, I figured out that it was just a normal dry erase marker, and that thing on the top was a board eraser.