Cute Office & School Supplies

Turns out, the joy that comes with shopping for school supplies isn’t something that goes away with age. So we researched the most beautiful, elegant stationery and supplies for the desks of all types of grownups—plus, gear to kit out the backpacks of kiddos, too.

Cute Office Supplies For Grownups

Retro

• Herschel Dawson Backpack Herschel, $119.95
• Anthropologie Iron
  Utility Scissors Anthropologie, $18 Patinaed to perfection.
• Midori PAN AM
  Brass Ballpoint Pen Notemaker, $33.17
• LIFE Typerwriting Paper Pad School House Electric, $12 Extra fine paper made in Japan.
• CW Pencil Brass
  Sharpener with
  Leather Case CW Pencil
  Enterprise, $22
• Klein Tools Zipper
  Consumables Bag Hand-Eye Supply, $17.95 Keeping bits and bobs
  contained since 1857.
• Max & Moritz Chalk Pad Max & Moritz, $64
• Tom Dixon
  Mathematician Set Walker Shop, $130 Tom Dixon-designed for the
  math nerd with taste.
• E+M HIGHLIGHTER LEADS
  5.5 MM PACK OF 6 Hand-Eye Supply, $11 These are 100% smudge-free.
• Siwa String & Button
  Envelope Cooper Hewit, $48

Romantic

• Poppin Copper Soft Cover Folio Poppin’, $14 Functions like a manilla envelope,
  but so much prettier.
• Studio Sarah Marble
  “G” Notebook Studio Sarah London, $10.83
• Ferme a Papier Purple Floral
  Year-Less Planner Ferme a Papier, $27.50
• Walker Art Cherry
  Blossom Sticky Notes Walker Art, $3
• STRIKE GOLD STRIPE FILE FOLDERS Kate Spade, $16
• Arminho Birds
  Notebook Arnminho, $9.95 Ideally sized for
  on-the–go note taking.
• Poketo Pattern
  Click Pen II Poketo, $5
• Maison Margiela
  Ostrich Feather Pen Amara, $61 Unapologetically girly.
• Nataraj Marble HD Pencil CW Pencil Enterprise, $0.30 These tend to mysteriously disappear so buy a bunch.
• Brass Ruler Sugar Paper, $75
• Oui Margot Tote goop, $223 For the Francophile with
  excess bagage.
• Parsienne
  Pencil Case Anthropologie, $24
• Sugar Paper The
  Perfect Binder Sugar Paper, $48

Modern

• Elizabeth and James Cynnie
  Leather BackPack Net-a-Porter, $645 A far cry from the beat-up
  Jansport of your youth.
• Poketo Stick Up Weekly Calendar Dwell Store, $10
• Midori Brass
  Number Clips Note Maker, $21.95
• Hay Ballograf Huset Shop, $31 Never misplace your beloved
  Ballograf again.
• P-S 3Pack Blue03
  Notebooks Public – Supply, $32
• Zip-It Mesh
  Storage Pouches A+R Store, $20
• L’Atelier D’Excercises
  Endless Note Hand-Eye, $52 Whether mounted or laid flat,
  this is to-do list gold.
• Metallic Rollbahn
  Notebook Walker Shop, $6.50
• White Eco Calculator
  with Orange Numbers Poppin, $10 super sleek and priced to please.
• Tombstone
  Mousepad Dowel Jones, $48 Made in Japan from a
  single sheet of Italian leather.
• Ellepi KLizia 97 Stapler Max & Moritz, $27.50
• Copic 12pc
  Basic Set Hand-Eye, $65

Classic

• O-Check Notebook Plain Note Maker, $9.95
• P-S 12Pack Classic
  Hex Pencil Public – Supply, $12
• M-Pui Roll Pen Case Tortoise General Store, $94 Fine Italian leather that only
  gets better with age.
• Troubadour Briefcase goop, $1,495 The traditional working girl
  briefcase, updated.
• Present & Correct Vintage
  Composition Book Present & Correct, $9.35 Doesn’t get any more classic
  that this.
• Anthropologie Densi Folder Anthropologie, $48
• Mondial Drawing Pins Note Maker, $2
• Classic Sport
  Rollerball Pencil The Ghostly Store, $22
• HAY Elastic Ball Huset Shop, $8
• Self Inking 32 Text Stamp Jake Spade, $135 “I Didn’t Mean Anything I Wrote.”
• Dukes Organiser Smythson, $660 It’s totally refillable so
  you can use it year after year.

Cute School Supplies For Kids

Notebook & Folders

• Unicorn notebook Cotton:On, 4 for $20
• Peekaboo folio Ban.do, $6 Comes with stickers for DIY
  decorating.
• Vinyl notebooks Leif, $8
• Emile et da Ida Notebook Orange Mayonnaise, $15.50
• Decomposition
  notebook Bookbinders.com, $8 Made with recycled
  paper and soy ink.
• 5 subject notebook Asos, $10.75 Compact and color coded.
• Ring Binder Multi-colored Target, $5.99
• Geo Ocean Notebook Urban Outfitters, $6.95
• Trapper Keeper Stars Wars 2-Pocket Paper Folder Mead, $2.95
• Trapper Keeper “Fun in the Sun”
  Heat Sealed Binder Mead.com, $9.99 We were pretty psyched to find out
  these are still in production.