The beautiful Manufactum web site features a fantastic array of well-made, useful objects (like a German Muji) including a lovely collection of office supplies. The folks over at Scout’s Honor visited the shop in Munich and brought home these Koh-i-noor red/blue pencils to continue to fuel my fascination with the two-toned pencil world. Scout’s Honor…
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A nice little round-up of DIY pencil projects. (via How About Orange)
More About Red-and-Blue Pencils
I received lots of great response about the two-tone pencils we posted about last week. It turns out teachers used them for grading (red) and writing in the correct answers (blue), copy editing if one end was non-reproduction blue and for keeping records for playing Go. One of our readers Knyphe included a link to…
Genius solution for storing pencils thanks to those purveyors of useful items, The Museum of Useful Things. $18 and comes filled with one dozen General’s Test Scoring Pencils (one of the only pencils still manufactured in the USA). (via Museum of Useful Things)
Fabulous pencil holder from Tohkin. How can I get one of these beauties?!?! (via pencil talk)
Vintage Eagle Turquoise 2H Pencils
(on loan from the Ben Jones collection)
Midori Brass “Bullet” Pencil
Hot News! JetPens is carrying Midori brass bullet pencils! $21. Oh, yeah. (via JetPens.com)