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Writing Makes Us Smarter?
Via Comrade Brian. Don’t trade in your pencils and paper for a keyboard just yet. A new study that compared the different brain processes used for writing by hand and typing has found that there are...
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Your Ivory-Topped Pencils — Mr. Selfridge.
We caught up on some series we’d missed this spring at Pencil Revolution HQ lately, including the first season of Mr. Selfridge, the story of Harry Gordon Selfridge and his London department store....
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Vero and Pencils.
“As a young man just out of the Army and attending Mechanical Arts School, the teacher asked for a detailed drawing (of a mechanism) and I felt like doing a self portrait. I got an ‘A’ for the class.”...
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Review of Staedtler Wopex HB.
I have been meaning to review the Staedtler Wopex for a long time. But it is a pencil about which I have thought so much that it became a daunting task. For starters, this is not the kind of pencil I...
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Yellow Rhodia Paper.
The good folks at Rhodia Drive were kind enough to include me on a list of folks to provide feedback about the yellow Rhodia pad. Shameful admission: I did not even know it existed. Early conclusion:...
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First Day of School Pencils, Take Two.
So. Charlotte started school today. Pre-K. She has been my constant companion for over four years. I did not have an easy night’s sleep or morning. But this is not the kind of blog where we wax...
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Neon Wopexen!
Ever since Gunther’s post last year featuring the gorgeous neon Wopexen available in Europe, I wanted some 0f my own and to be able to get more. I lusted for these 80s throw-back pencils made of...
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Review of Staedtler’s THE PENCIL, 1 of 2.
Now this is a piece of Pencil Beauty, and I hope I do it justice. A week after we received Primo Neon Wopexen at HQ, we received The Pencil. That is that name for Staedtler’s relatively new luxury...
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Thank You Art.
Viva…! We used to post much more about readers’ art, and I am glad we can do it again today. Wendy sent this wonderful image recently, and I think it would make a great Pencil Revolution T-shirt one...
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Fury Pencils.
We watched the 2014 WWII film Fury last night at HQ. There were two scenes involving the critical use of pencils. I won’t spoil anything if you haven’t seen it yet. Both scenes involved planning....
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