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 ...

"Mechanical pencils rule," my fifteen-year-old grandniece, Genevieve, declared when I invited her to be her generation's voice on school supplies. "Nobody sharpens anymore." Then, continuing with a ...

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 ...

Happy 158th birthday to the pencil with attached eraser! It was on March 30, 1858, that Hymen L. Lipman received a patent for his remarkable invention — a tube of wood with graphite at one end and a ...

Flair Writing launches 'The Right Move' campaign, promoting its refillable Move 2MM Mechanical Pencil as a sustainable, ...

Why buy a pencil and an eraser, or even a pencil with an eraser, when you could have the Eraser Pencil? The design, from Deuk Young Lee of Korea, ditches the wood entirely and replaces it with a long ...