Jen ChristiansenInterview
Senior graphics editor (Scientific American)
Adapted from Jen Christiansen's interview on Uses This, published 24 January 2017. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I almost always start with a black Pentel Sharp mechanical drafting pencil, for marking up and sketching in the margins of article manuscript printouts.
Or an old set of 36 Faber-Castell colored pencils and scrounged scraps of tracing paper if things get really hairy.
So I photograph sketches with my iPhone SE instead of using the scanner.
In occasional bouts of disgust at the grime that appears on my Apple USB Keyboard keys, I'll use electronics wipes to clean them off.
I back things up on a LaCie Rugged external drive (stored in a vintage sewing box).