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The Rise and Fall of the Yellow Pencil: Part 1

Like the red fire truck or the blue police car, the yellow pencil is an iconic image. We have all relied on the yellow pencil at some point, the color embedded in our very idea of what a pencil is. The burning question: Why are pencils yellow? Why…

Palomino Announces Blackwing602.com

Yesterday, Palomino announced the launch of their new Blackwing-focused site Blackwing602.com (as well of a very interesting new notebook, but more on that later). The site is aimed at fostering the culture of creativity, innovation and excitement…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Robbie Wild Hudson

This week’s featured pencil artist is Robbie Wild Hudson, a pencil artist who splits his time between Berlin and the Lake District in England. Robbie has exhibited his work in the UK, Canada, and Turkey and, after taking one look at his gallery,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Armalitire

This week’s featured artist is Armalitire, a pencil artist and digital artist from the United States. Armalitire’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with characters of her own design, each with a unique look, name and backstory. Many of her drawings…
How Pencil Sharpeners Work

10 Little-Known Pencil Facts

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I write a piece of trivia on my whiteboard at work every morning. It started as a way to lure visitors to my remote cubicle without bankrupting me the way a candy bowl would. Then I moved closer to the rest of my department, and everyone looks…
China Lead Poisoning

Pencils Slandered in Lead Poisoning Case

Hunan province’s local chemical plant wants the world to think that something is in our children’s pencils. Over 300 children in the Chinese province have tested positive for high levels of lead in their bloodstreams, Salon reported last…
Pencil Artist Bill Boyer

Pencil Artist of the Week: Bill Boyer

This week’s featured pencil artist is Bill Boyer, a retired professional artist who worked in the video game industry for the last 17 years. Bill is a self-taught 3D digital artist, but has spent his days in retirement getting back to his…
How to Choose Your Drawing Paper

How to Choose Your Drawing Paper

An artist’s materials are essential to their craft.  For those that work with drawing mediums – pencil, charcoal, watercolor, ink, pastel – paper is vital to creating of lasting work. Having trouble finding the right paper for sketch…

Scientists Create Diamonds Out of Graphite. Sort of.

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Office of Science User Facility kind of made diamonds out of graphite this past February. In a study entitled “Interlayer Carbon Bond Formation Induced by Hydrogen Adsorption in Few-Layer…

Boing Boing’s Mechanical Pencil Torture Test

Our selection of mechanical pencils has grown in recent years (And may be getting some new additions soon. Stay tuned for more on that later.), and we can appreciate the subtleties of the woodcased pencil’s mechanical brethren.  So, when…