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How Long Can You Balance a Pencil?

How Long Can You Balance a Pencil?

Pencils.com has a challenge for you! Grab a pencil, sharpen the tip to a perfect point, and try to balance it on a surface - your finger, a table, your morning bagel (if you need help achieving a perfect tip, check out this book by David Rees…

The Best Pencil Print Ad Campaigns

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Pencils and print ads go together like peanut butter and jam.  Usually, however, the print is not about the pencils that likely birthed the ads.  Here are our all-time favorite pencil print ad campaigns.  Some of them advertise pencils and…
Too Cool to do Drugs

Anti-Drug Pencil Fail

Watch out what your belongings are telling you to do. As fourth grader Kodi Mosier of Ticonderoga Elementary in New York discovered, sharpening your pencil could elicit a much different message than the original. The Bureau for At-Risk…

The Erasable Podcast

We're excited. Actually, let me rephrase that. We're psyched out of our minds. Why, you ask? Let me tell you. Last week saw the introduction of The Erasable Podcast, a podcast dedicated solely to the love of wooden pencils. It's the…
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Pencil Sharpening Knives

When I was little, my dad and my brother always carried knives in their pockets wherever they went. They used them for all sorts of things - to open the packaging on tricky bags of gummy bears, to pop the caps off bottles, and even to sharpen…
Autocorrect Fail

Avoid Autocorrect Fails with a Pencil

Avoid Autocorrect Fails with a Pencil You know this has happened to you: you're composing a text message to someone you don't talk to much. Maybe you've just met, inviting them to meet at the ice cream bar at noon. You tap each key very, very…

‘Let’s Make a Pencil’ Video

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The Incense Cedar Institute created a video showing and discussing the process of pencil making. For an object that is used by millions of people every day, pencils and the amount of work it takes to produce them can be overlooked at times.…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Neil Dvorak

This week's featured pencil artist is Neil Dvorak, and he is a comic writer, penciler and illustrator all rolled into one. His comics are short and sweet affairs that deal with the challenges and adventures of everyday life. He employs a minimalistic…
Year of the Pencil

Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil

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Pencils and Pop Culture: The Year of the Pencil Earlier this year, Kat Brown of Night and Day, The Spectator's Arts and Culture magazine, called 2012 "The Year of the Pencil"  (Be warned, the sketch at the top of the page is probably NSFW).…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Rebecca Stahr

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Rebecca Stahr, a pencil artist and designer from Chicago, Illinois. Rebecca began studying art at a young age and went on to study advertising, graphic design and illustration at the American Academy of…