Faber-Castell, founded in 1761 in Germany, is an art supply company that creates quality writing and drawing utensils. Its pens, markers and pencils tend to be favorites amongst artists. In 2018, the ...

Many artists use pencils to create beautiful works of art - but not so many make masterpieces on the tip of one. Dalton Ghetti of US, spends two-and-a-half years crafting each piece by hand on pencil ...

Laptops may have made hand-writing notes a thing of the past, but the pencil — or at least pencil lead — is making a comeback, as UA researchers are developing ways to use pencil lead as a conductor ...

In 1795, French chemist Nicholas Jacques Conte received a patent for the modern process for making pencil leads by mixing powdered graphite and clay to form sticks and hardening them in a furnace.

Despite the name, pencils have never been made with lead. They’re made with graphite, a form of carbon. Just where does graphite come from, and why did we decided to write with it? NPR took a look ...

No one in the world knows how to make the newspaper you are holding (and, if you’re reading this on your phone, computer, iPad or Kindle, no one knows how to make those things either). Even the best ...