Perhaps we’re biased, but there’s a unique beauty to drawing pencils that isn’t matched by your everyday writing pencil. Usually painted in a pleasing color and embossed with their name and grade, ...

International design and art direction awards D&AD is set to replace its In Book and Nomination Awards with two newly designed Pencils as part of an Awards-wide refresh. Coming into effect from the ...

Designers, artists, engineers and sketchers may be interested in a new range of graphite body woodless pencils called Nord. The environmental design of the pencils has been created to “avoid ...

Australian agencies and companies have earned four graphite pencils at the D&AD Awards overnight. Melbourne Based design studio Other Matter notched a graphite pencil for its Non-Vinyl Signage Film ...

A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...

Pencils have been around for hundreds of years. A Japanese designer recently reimagined the writing tool to fix one lingering design flaw. Ever since a scientist in Napolean Bonaparte’s army invented ...

Do you have a favourite, go-to pencil? If so, is it a traditional wood and graphite number, or a mechanical device? If it’s the former, do you hone its point with a sharpener or a knife? Look at the ...

As low-tech as it may be, the pencil has managed to still keep itself relevant—despite the endless graphite-free ways we can communicate these days. That being said, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t use an ...