About this episode

In this episode, Victoria Kirst discusses the analog journaling community and her stationery zine Pouch.

While journalers and junk journalers exist in this digital age alongside the rest of us, they crave the tactile and in-person elements of the analog world. In part 2 of my chat with Software Engineer Victoria Kirst, we take a deep dive into this non-digital community in the pages of her stationery zine Pouch and beyond. If you are unfamiliar with stationery clubs and swaps, it is positively heartwarming to learn of tools like washi tape or stickers being lovingly bartered or shared by these offline groups. Here, stationery is not a commodity but a tool for collective expression. For Victoria, Pouch is the ultimate passion project turned side hustle, and she perceives it as a tool to grow her community as she scratches her own creative itches. This becomes exceedingly clear in Victoria's surprising Nerd Notes, where this micro-bride turns her very wedding into stationery to mail and share! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: Victoria Kirst

Topics covered

• stationery
• community
• analog journaling
• creative expression
• zines

Keywords

• stationery
• journaling
• Pouch
• community
• zine
• wedding
• creative

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pouch Studio

Products: washi tape, stickers

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