Penco/ High Tide/ Nahe

With their love of all things retro and analogue, Hightide and Penco produce some of our favourite Japanese stationery and lifestyle designs. The company was established in 1994 by two friends - a Japanese surfer and a design aficionado - who decided to start a company based on the importance of being fulfiled both spiritually and emotionally.

Penco is a stationery brand founded on a single ballpoint pen. As the Americana inspired name suggests, PENCO is a company making pens. That is, it started with a single ballpoint pen. By now their nostalgic analog collections encompass stationery ranging from clips to clipboards, notebooks to console boxes and pencases to, well... pens.

Founded in 1994 in Fukuoka, Hightide is a globally celebrated Japanese stationery brand.