Heeber

Heeber who is another San Diego City College graduate explained and demonstrated the variations of calligraphy pens. Heeber is a graphic designer, calligraphy artist, and a custom calligraphy pen maker. Over the years Heeber realized that he didn’t want to be a graphic designer his whole life and he wanted to be able to do other things as well, which is when he discovered calligraphy. Heeber demonstrated a lot of different pens, such as the Pilot Parallel pen, brush pen, cola pen, and a ruling pen with the cola pen being his favorite. The cola pen has a special feature that anyone can grab an aluminum can and create their own tip/nip for their pen. Further on Heeber demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of each different pen. A couple of times Heeber did wedding invitations and realized that it made good money, but was to tedious for him to continue. Heeber mentioned that he started calligraphy as a hobby, but turned out to be work he didn’t want to do, so then he started to make custom calligraphy pens. Heeber sells his pens and communicates with his clients through Instagram. Unlike other custom calligraphy pen makers Heeber’s main focus and his top seller is his ergonomic calligraphy pen. The ergonomic calligraphy pen is designed around the hand of the specific writer. Heeber has his clients send him pictures and measurements of their hand so that he can make the pen have the best fit in the writer’s hands. Heeber now plans on continuing making custom pens and hopefully expand his custom calligraphy pen making business. Overall, Heeber said many insightful things and demonstrated well the art of using calligraphy pens.