Hightide/Penco: Japanese Craft Meets American Spirit
Hightide was established in 1994 in Fukuoka, Japan, by two friends. A surfer and a design lover who fell in love with a single American ballpoint pen and decided to create an "imaginary American company" that captures that mid-century office aesthetic we all secretly miss.
What started as one pen naturally grew into everything you need for a proper analog workspace. Penco gives you that satisfying feeling of using real, physical tools in our increasingly digital world—American nostalgia crafted with Japanese attention to detail
