If you want a quality writing implement, you can rely on people who use them in their line of work every day to know the best ones to use. So when Studio Ghibli puts their name to a mechanical pencil, ...

Another BAA (Big Apple Announcement) has come and gone, leaving us with an i-Pad the size of a tabletop “Ms. Pac-Man,” an Apple Watch that sports a snaky Hermes strap, and an updated iPhone that I won ...

Remember how important the No. 2 pencil was during school? Without it, you would never graduate, go to college or amount to anything. Well, at least anything measurable by a scantron machine. Meet ...

If you would like to quieten your iPad writing experience and improve the responsiveness of your Apple Pencil stylus. PENCILIN tips for Apple Pencil are here to elevate your creativity and ...

From Pencils You Should Know: A History of the Ultimate Writing Utensil in 75 Anecdotes by Caroline Weaver (published by Chronicle Books 2020, all images courtesy Chronicle Books) I hadn’t thought of ...

In "20 Things You Didn't Know About... Pencils," we asserted that "the average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words. History does not record ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One day, early in the 20th century, in pre-revolutionary Russia, a little boy lay ill in bed in St Petersburg. He was called Vladimir ...

The British Library exhibition Writing: Making Your Mark tells the story of how writing flows through the last 5,000 years of human history. Visitors might easily pass by three little pieces of lead ...

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