pencil talk

To promote the Felissimo 500 Colour pencil set, Felissimo is holding two contests. I hope you will consider entering. Contest 1: Design a pair of web banners, or a poster. The prize in each category is a set of Felissimo 500 pencils plus $US1000.00 cash. Not bad! Contest 2: Design a pencil case for the [...]

Felissimo recently relaunched their amazing set of 500 colour pencils in Japan. This news was already exciting, but Felissimo recently contacted me, and told me about their plans to make these pencils available globally by monthly subscription! 25 pencils are sent from Japan each month for 20 months. The subscription price is $33.00 per month, [...]

How pencils are made – video My thanks to Huib for these YouTube links – these are by far the best the best videos I’ve seen documenting pencil production. Staedtler This is from the How it is Made televison show. Staedtler is never mentioned by name. Faber-Castell Another Staedtler video I found these fascinating. Staedler [...]

Just after mentioning Mitsubishi’s set of 240 colour pencils, we have this: A 500 colour set! Astounding! (thanks to Kero556′s twitter feed)