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PencilWrap’s Peanuts Molskine Giveaway

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You might remember last month’s blog post about Moleskine’s Peanuts 60th anniversary edition.

PencilWrap has a Peanuts Molskine Giveaway! Just leave a comment at their Peanuts Moleskine Giveaway blog post before 23:59 Pacific Time on 2nd December and you have the chance to win a sealed copy of the large Peanuts 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Ruled Notebook. PencilWrap is even shipping internationally.

Good luck!

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History of the Lead Pencil

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Officemuseum.com has a nice page about the history of the lead pencil, where you can also find a picture of an early pencil vending machine.

If you search for “pencil vending machine” in the search engine of your choice you might be surprised how many different types of pencil vending machines there still are today.

…and a last link: some authors still start the process of writing a book on a piece of paper. Award-winning children’s author Donna McDine used her favourite Graf Von Faber-Castell pen for the first draft of her latest book. The only question remaining is: was it a pencil?

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Moleskine Limited Editions: Pac-Man & Peanuts

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Thanks to the Office Supply Geek newsletter and to Woodclinched I just discovered that there is a Pac Man Moleskine Limited Edition available. There are altogether four different notebooks and one set with a Pac-Man theme. Another limited edition, to be released between next week and November (depending on where you live) has a Snoopy / Peanuts theme. I have not had any ‘real’ Moleskines before …but since the Pac Man and Snoopy editions remind me of my childhood I might buy my one of these.

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Graphite in the news

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Pencils made it into the news this week.

You might have heard about this year’s Nobel prize for physics. In 2004 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov started removing layers of graphite from pencil leads  …which eventually led to the Nobel prize for their work on experimenting with graphene. Here is also an older article about graphene with the catchy name ‘Black Hole in a Pencil’.

From the world of science to entertainment:

Do you remember A-ha’s music video with the pencil drawings? That was 25 years ago (time flies, doesn’t it). In time for this anniversary: an article about this music video.

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