A New TSL Collaboration Piece: The A5 Zipper Portfolio

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Our newest collaboration piece from The Superior Labor is the A5 Zipper Portfolio, which has been some time in the making.

This is launching next week, with the pre-order opening February 13th, 10am EST, with delivery at the end of 2025 (sometime between September and December 2025, and hopefully not being pushed into early 2026).

We first began discussing the possibility of this item when The Superior Labor visited us in August of last year, and after lots of backs and forths and prototypes and emails, I’m in love with how it’s turned out, and all of the little details that have gone into this new design.

It’s very similar to the A5 Portfolio, but the new Zipper Portfolio opens up all the way to become an A5 notebook cover. There is a pen loop on the inside to keep a pen secure, inside the zipper, as well as some pockets.

It’s a simple and clean design, but each part of it has had so much thought and care put into it, with small tweaks and adjustments made to pockets and stitching. The costs of materials and production have increased dramatically over the last little while, and/but the elements of this item that give it its character and usefulness were hard to give up.

For this brand new collaboration piece, we are launching a true pre-order for a guaranteed item that will be made-to-order for us. The pre-order will open at 10 am EST, February 13 and will close February 20th, 10 am or whenever our total number of units is sold out—whichever comes first. There is not an infinite amount in the pre-order. There is a chance that our total quantity will sell out before the end of the pre-order period because our total quantity across all colours has been reached, so if you are interested, I would not advise waiting until the very end.

We are limiting this to one item per person. There are no refunds, exchanges, or changes possible. I’m sorry about this! If you’re not someone who thinks you can wait, I recommend waiting until this item enters into general production, like the rest of our collaboration pieces, and where the timeline between pre-order and delivery is much tighter.

If you are international, please reach out to orders@wonderpens.ca for a shipping quote.

We are expecting these items to arrive between September 2025 and December 2025, according to TSL’s production timelines, which are, as always, with some possibility of delay.

In the past our orders for our collaboration pieces have been put into the queue several months in the future, and then we open it up for pre-order much closer to the actual delivery date, so you don’t have to wait so long before you get your item. The benefit of this is obviously a shorter wait period, but it also means that we are guessing at the right colours in the right amounts.  

This pre-order is different from how we usually do things, mainly because this is a new item, and we want to make sure we get it right. TSL’s production schedule is fairly tight and locked up, and has only been getting more so for the last several years, so for this first launch of this new item, we’re letting everyone who’s interested now call their colour and we can put our order in more knowing exactly what you want.

If you have feedback on how we’re doing this, we’d love to hear it, and we definitely take your feedback into account for various launches and operational details. We are but a small ship flailing about in the wind, and hoping to thrust this out into the world in the best way we can. We would love to place more frequent, smaller orders with TSL, but their production schedule is limited, and we work with what we have, which sometimes means we only get an order every 1-2 years as our exclusive collaboration items are squeezed in between their regular production items.

We may have extra units when these items arrive in the late fall/winter of this year, depending on what TSL’s production schedule looks like and if we’re able to add to our order, but this is not something we’re counting on, and not something we’re going to know ahead of time.

The leather! Of course, of course the leather is so wonderful, and the feeling and weight of this new zip portfolio with a notebook inside of it, pens tucked into the loop or pockets, extra slips of things, is so utterly satisfying and a complete delight. To squeeze this in my arms! A labour of love.

How incredible to see this new fruit of our friendship with The Superior Labor. I could not have foreseen how things would unfold a dozen years ago, when we were babies opening up a shop on Dundas West. I cannot wait to see how all of these out in the wild will age with time and use and all the journeys they will go on. I very much hope, for those of you that end up with one, that these will be a companion for you through all of life’s turmoils and adventures and triumphs.