As L.A. Gear and JNCO Jeans have shown, everything, at some point, goes out of style. But as the second month of 2006 rolls around, have ordinary wooden pencils faded out of popular culture just as ...

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 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 ...

"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 ...

Learn how to make 6-sided solid wood pencils using a clever new jig invented by Andrew Klein. This woodworking technique lets you turn scrap wood into custom hexagon pencils with just a few basic ...

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 ...