The lack of art and craft in the packaging of modern stationery is regularly lamented at this blog. A manufacturer who is bucking the trend is Viarco, who have launched a new carbon pencil that is be...
Poppin was kind enough to send a few samples this way. Their pencils and erasers form a nice duo. (They also sent some ballpoints, but we won’t speak of those.) The pencil is round and has blac...
It seems to have been a while since this blog has been so excited about a new stationery product. The notebooks shown here are from Design.Y, the brand of Mr. Hiroshi Yoshino-san, a bookbinder from S...
To my surprise, the Aaron Draplin All Points Ontario Tour landed in Waterloo, Ontario tonight. Luckily for me, I learned about this mid-afternoon today. It was a thrill to meet Mr. Draplin, a success...
California Cedar, a global pencil slat business, is known online for their pencils.com website, their Palomino pencil line, and now – a type of marketing dishonesty that completely shocks many ...
A recent noon hour stroll took me near a university bookstore. As a bookstore, this place is only average for casual book browsing, as it is mainly a textbook store. But they also have a small statio...
This visitor carries a Noris colour pencil: The left foot has the Staedtler logo: My thanks to Gail from Staedtler for sending this visitor my way.
No Ordinary Pencil is no ordinary blog post. Read it at Blackwing Pages.
Though Faber-Castell makes a remarkable pencil holder and extender, the market has a good deal of room for less expensive offerings. One of these is the pencil holder from Tohkin. From their website,...
Today we examine a trio of red and blue pencils from around the globe. From Berol México we have the Escolar. A part of the global Sanford empire, Berol México continues to use historically important...
Here is an unusual pencil that I know little about. An oversized woodcased chalk pencil, the Jass allows for a lot more precision than a typical stick of chalk. On slate: On a chalkboard: See Bleisti...
While performing a search for pencils, it’s hard to not notice the “This site may be compromised” warning that Google displays in the pencils.com listing: Though I imagined for a mo...
Viarco, a small traditional pencil manufacturer in Portugal, continues to innovate. The ArtGraf pencils are a pair of 22cm black and white pencils. The matte black finished “Soft Black” i...
The Mitsubishi NanoDia pencil is supposed to be something special. The graphite is claimed to benefit from some important and noteworthy quality advances. The line was announced in 2008, and started ...
turn it is a wooden top whose axis is a woodcase pencil. The packaging tells me that the design is by Miguel Soeiro and was produced by ESAD.CR and Viarco. This is a short video showing the top in ac...
Longtime readers may recall a 2010 post mentioning some very tiny pencils. Matthias of Bleistift also received a few of these from Sean, and seeing my post, took pity on me and kindly redirected a fe...
This is the season when we celebrate the harvest. My friends in the US just celebrated Thanksgiving – a holiday which is also celebrated in Canada, though in October. Of course, many countries ...
Rhodia (or to be be precise, Exaclair, the US distributor of the conglomerate that owns the Rhodia brand) contacted me and asked if they could send two of their Rhodia brand pencils. Let me confess &...
The Faber-Castell 250th anniversary pencils. The raised lettering is remarkable. The caps acknowledge the anniversary year. Congratulations to Faber-Castell on their 250th anniversary year!
Ipenstore was kind enough to send some items for review. The products are from their “Rosetta” line, which I take to be an in-house brand. I’ve ordered items from Ipenstore in the p...
Doing some fall cleaning, I found a dozen Clairefontaine A4 notebooks from student days in the late 1980s/early 1990s. The notebooks strongly resemble the current offerings, and have held up very wel...
A 250th anniversary pencil from Faber-Castell. Though – it unfortunately looks like products we’ve already seen. The special imprint Castell 9000 pencils given out at Paperworld probably ...
I’ve been enjoying some Zebrano wood writing implements from e+m Holzprodukte of Germany: A ruler with embedded lead pointer, a ballpoint pen, a pencil extender, a 5.6mm leadholder, a 1.18mm me...
My apologies – I am far behind in responding to email. Further, the router that connected my previous mail server to the net died. It was in this state for some days before corrective action wa...
The blog has taken an unplanned summer hiatus. It will soon be back!
A simple but very well made object from Kozo Interior Studio – a pencil (or pen) box made in walnut. A magnet in the box helps keep the lid in place. A very nice way to keep pencils.
Troy from Classroom Friendly Supplies kindly sent a “Classroom Friendly Pencil Sharpener” this way. I’ve previously read reports on the sharpener at Pencil Revolution and Lung Sketc...
Following the previous post on vintage pencils, Bob from Brand Name Pencils sent some correspondence. Bob owns a complete set of Eagle Polytechnic pencils from the mid 19th century, and was kind enou...
Lothar von Faber’s Polygrade is a historically important pencil. Launched in 1837, and sold until the early 20th century, the product offered pencils in a system of standard grades, and establi...
Here are five pencil accessories. Purchased from JetPens, they are all inexpensive products aimed at children. Four are from Sun-Star, and one from Tombow. The pencil cap with sharpener allows you to...
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