“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 ...

My daughter is an elementary school teacher and a very good teacher, I am told. This week’s column gives me an opportunity to tell her what I want for Christmas: A dozen Blackwing pencils that will ...

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 ...

CW Pencil Enterprise is a singular shop with a singular goal: aggregate the world’s finest and hardest-to-find pencils into one location. Caroline Weaver, the 25-year-old mastermind behind the Lower ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...