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Reviving the Blackwing: Understanding the Traditional Blackwing Fan

Welcome back. I hope that you’re enjoying this series of posts as we explore our company’s journey to revive the Blackwing. (To catch up if you’re new see Post One and Post Two) As promised today is the day I’ll begin focusing on our…

Reviving the Blackwing: Why take on this Challenge?

In Part One of this Series, I introduced our current process of gathering initial consumer response to our new Palomino Blackwing pencil. While we’re completing our evaluation of responses today I answer the question “Why is CalCedar reviving…
Blackwing Experience

Reviving the Blackwing: A Labor of Love or Insanity?

Part One: Seeking Consumer Feedback Over the past two weeks we on the CalCedar & Pencils.com team have been in the midst of a grand experiment. That is soliciting and evaluating the initial consumer responses to our new Palomino Blackwing…

Nikira- Another Palomino Fan

“Drawn with Palomino pencil, recommended by Bob from Scotland, really the best pencil I ever had.” The best pencil that she has ever had!!! Nikira posts many of her sketches on her blog. She is also a member of Skine Art where she posts…

"The Best Pencil in the World" -Joseph Finder

In the following excerpt, New York Times best-selling author Joseph Finder discusses what he believes to be'The Best Pencil in the World'. Learn more about Joseph Finder by checking out his ‘Featured Writer’ page, reading his  ‘Writer…

Bulk Pencils…A Huge Money Saver!

Our new Bulk Pencils purchasing option offers our most favorable everyday pricing on a wide variety of our most popular pencils. Buy your favorite pencils in multiples of full one gross boxes (144 pencils per item) and take advantage of our…

Sketching at Work: Racing Car Designer

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As a follow on to my last post on sketching in the workplace I was catching up on one of my  interests this morning which was the Formula 1 Racing Series.  Amazing, I came across this  article on Red Bull Racing's F1 car designer Adrian…

Sketching as a Workplace Creativity Tool

The team at Ninthlink is one of the two external partners we are currently working with here at  Pencils.com to develop and build our next generation Pencils.com site. Today we receive a link to this  interesting post promoting the concept…

New Line of Artists Pencils and Drawing Kits!

Pencils.com is pleased to announce the addition of a new line of artist products by General Pencil Company. General’s® special formulation pencils complement our premium Palomino graphite and color pencils expanding the range of shade intensity…

Quality #2 Testing Pencils

“Take out your number 2 pencil.” What student hasn’t gotten at least a little anxious upon hearing those words that signify the beginning of an important test? Help boost your students’ confidence and change anxiety into excitement by…