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The Pen(cil): Students Design Mechanical Pencils for NASA

Carlos Mencia has a joke about the U.S. spending billions of dollars to develop a pen capable of writing in space, while the Russians just used pencils. The truth is more of a middle ground - both Russia and the U.S. used pencils in space originally,…
Graphite Water Filtration

Graphite-Powered Water Filtration

One of our favorite pencil life hacks doubled as a great survival tip.  This alternative use for a pencil could help you start a fire with your car battery.  This week, we’re taking a look at another life-saving use for a pencil, courtesy…
Pencil Artist Louis Keersmaeker

Pencil Artist of the Week: Louis Keersmaekers

This week’s featured pencil artist is Louis Keersmaekers, an art student from Belgium who creates graphite, charcoal and acrylic-based art. Louis prefers “sinister art that gives an eerie feeling, nothing to edgy though just something……
Faber-Castell Print Ads

The Best Faber-Castell Advertisements

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Over the years, pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell has produced some genuinely inspiring print ads that blur the lines between ad and art.  One of our chosen best pencil print ads was from a Faber-Castell colored pencil campaign. Faber-Castell…

Pencils.com and the University of the Pacific Partner Up Once Again

Late last month, Pencils.com partnered with the University of the Pacific to launch the Los Tigres educational program. To date, the program has been an overwhelming success, reaching 10 different elementary schools and over 3000 students in…
Pencil Life Hacks

Our Favorite Pencil Life Hacks

Popular blog Lifehacker.com strives to make readers’ lives a little easier.  The blog posts great deals, encouraging video and literature, technological tidbits, and creative DIY projects and more to help readers ‘hack’ shortcuts into…
Drawings by Arno Hagenunger

Pencil Artist of the Week: Arno Hagenunger

This week’s featured pencil artist is Arno Hagenunger, a pencil artist from Germany who creates incredible, fantastic drawings using a combination of graphite pencils, color pencils, and various acrylics and pastels. His DeviantArt profile…
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…
Pencil Street Art

Anonymous Artist Creates Pencil-Inspired Street Art

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An anonymous artist near Stroud, UK is drawing attention to a nearby field by painting its stakes into giant pencils.  This “Banksy-like” street art won the favor of the stakes’ owner, farmer Nick Dart, who had to install the posts upside-down…
Graphite

5 Unique Properties of Graphite You (Probably) Didn’t Know

When you hear the word graphite, pencils inevitably come to mind. The pencil is of course the most common and well-known use for graphite, but there are some unique properties of graphite that make it useful for a number of different applications. It's…