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Archive for month: September, 2013

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Famous Notebook Users

Six Famous Notebook Users

If you’re an active Pencils.com reader, you know that we frequently advise keeping a thought notebook or journal around to keep track of daily activities and ideas, and we do so with good reason. Research has indicated that keeping a notebook…
English Majors

10 Things Only An English Major Will Understand

Remember meeting people in college? You'd always ask/get asked the Big Three: 1. Where are you from? 2. What dorm are you in? 3. What's your major? Nothing said more about you - for better or worse - than the answer to #3. I spent four years…
David Rees on CBS Morning

David Rees and Musgrave Pencils on CBS Morning

Over the weekend, CBS News and their weekend morning series Sunday Morning ran a segment about pencils and our favorite pencil sharpener. No, I’m not talking about the Blackwing long point sharpener, I’m talking about artisanal pencil sharpener…
Pencil Artist Lynn Spoor

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lynn Spoor

This week’s featured pencil artist is Lynn Spoor, a painter and pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates pencil portraits that are so realistic, you’d swear they were photographs. Lynn was an artist at an early age, drawing and…