Forget your yellow-barreled smudgey number twos, your multi-colored refillable mechanical instruments: Scribbling addicts around the world are obsessed with the sleek, smooth-writing Eberhard Faber ...

Using the Notes app on your iPhone is a little bit like shouting into the void: you open the white-lined screen, reminiscent of a piece of paper and jot down a quick thought, idea or appointment — and ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The rest of the editors around here know about the pencils I use. They are black, with oddly shaped ...

Writing with a Blackwing is like swabbing a pad of butter across warm toast. It glides. The Palomino Blackwing 602 is my favorite pencil. Welcome to Senior Week at Gawker Media! Here’s the lowdown: We ...

“I have found a new kind of pencil ― the best I have ever had. Of course it costs three times as much too but it is black and soft but doesn’t break off. I think I will always use these. They are ...

Crossword puzzles have been a fixture in New York Magazine’s pages since the first issue hit newsstands in 1968 — in which the puzzle was created by none other than Stephen Sondheim. (He even wrote a ...

Blackwing pencils were first produced in the 1930s when the 602 model was introduced by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company. It was known for its soft, dark graphite and square eraser and garnered a ...

Tustin, CA–The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity announced today that the manufacturer of Chuck Jones’s favorite pencil, Pencils.com (a California Cedar Products Company) will be a sponsor of the ...