A pencil lamp shade
Seen in a friend’s house: She made this lamp shade for the children’s room using pencils and a hot glue gun.
Pencils
(Lost and) found
…found this poor fellow on the floor, in the building where I work.
A beautiful hand-sharpened Staedtler that looks as if it provided its owner with a good life of service.
A Venetian pencil collection
Recently, Roberto, a reader of my blog from Venice contacted me. He has been collecting pencils since 1985 and by now owns around 9000 pencils. His collection tells 120 years of history of this wonderful writing instrument.
He showed me an Italian article about his pencil collection which features some impressive and rare pencils – but he is not just collecting pencils, he is also using them for his drawings. His appreciation for this drawing tool is what started his collection in the first place.
He kindly allowed me to show you some of his beautiful drawings. Have a look at them, as well as the first page of the article I mentioned in the picture gallery below.
Tsugite
There are more useful ’systems’, but it’s a good looking set.
A musical Noris
Another Noris in the Wild. This time from the cover of a single by indie-pop band Von Wegen Lisbeth. I got to know the band because of their song on the Crucchi Gang album and noticed that their latest single features what is unmistakably a Staedtler Noris.
I believe that the use of the cover of this single falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.