When buying school supplies for your kid—perhaps during one of the tax-free weekends happening around the country—know that not all wooden pencils are created equal. Some break constantly. Others have ...

As low-tech as it may be, the pencil has managed to still keep itself relevant—despite the endless graphite-free ways we can communicate these days. That being said, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t use an ...

As a new middle-school teacher, I’m facing a challenge I never thought about before: assigning a list of school supplies for my students. My colleagues tell me that there’s a real downside to wooden ...

Pencils have been around for hundreds of years. A Japanese designer recently reimagined the writing tool to fix one lingering design flaw. Ever since a scientist in Napolean Bonaparte’s army invented ...

Before you say anything, yes, we know they're called carpenter's pencils and serve a purpose. Nonetheless, kids love drawing with big flat pencils and so do we, so we think it's cool that fiftythree ...

SAN DIEGO, July 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Before mechanical pencils, there was a time where all pencils were made of wood - taking a scantron test required a yellow #2 pencil to be used. There was ...

International design and art direction awards D&AD is set to replace its In Book and Nomination Awards with two newly designed Pencils as part of an Awards-wide refresh. Coming into effect from the ...