How often do you think about pencils? Well, if you’re a composer, artist or designer — or perhaps all three — the pencil is one of your most important tools. In 1998, the pencil world (yes, there’s a ...

The Blackwing 602 went out of production in 1998; now, on its 80th birthday, everyone from Stephen Sondheim to "Mad Men" to top studio animators have made it one of the industry’s most valuable -- and ...

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 ...

STOCKTON - California Cedar Products Co. is a commodities business. For decades, it has produced pencil slats - carefully dried and precision sawn slabs of cedar - a raw material for pencil ...

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 ...