Elderly customers can be seen often going into a Caran d’Ache shop to ask for a single absent color, as a replacement for their own worn down pencil; such is the cult of these finely... Elderly ...

A set of coloured pencils - that transform into watercolour when dampened with a paintbrush, all wrapped up in a tin featuring a rugged snow-topped mountain - has been the most prized acquisition of ...

For artists, students, kids, and even just everyday doodlers, colored pencils are an essential desktop item. Having spent seven years of my life studying the pencil as an object and selling it to ...

THE HUMBLE PENCIL IS probably one of the first writing implements any of us owns. Before the advent of large-format phones and digital tablets of every size, I was brought up on them: graphite, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. “Paul Smith has been a Caran d'Ache aficionado for over ten years and ...