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Seen in the news

A pencil factory for Nigeria. If it really provides employment for 400,000 people it must be one heck of a factory.

 

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Seen in the supermarket

A magazine that comes with pencils. Int he past I’ve only seen (and bought) ‘children magazines’ (Simpsons, Disney) that came with pencils.

 

Seen in a shop on FuZhou road in Shanghai

A ‘graphite object’.

From the description:

Please Use! Functional Graphite Object writes like a pencil while resists staining your hands. Handcrafted using a proprietary technique that San Francisco artist Agelio Batle invented. With daily use they should last 7-9 years.

Functional Graphite Object writes like a pencil while resists staining your hands. Handcrafted using a proprietary technique that San Francisco artist Agelio Batle invented.
Functional Graphite Object writes like a pencil while resists staining your hands. Handcrafted using a proprietary technique that San Francisco artist Agelio Batle invented.

 

IMG_1041Seen at the chemist [1]Not any old chemist, even a dispensing chemist.

A crazy golf set – with one pencil, one golf putter eraser, three golf ball erasers and more.

 

Seen at the airport

Cheap Rhodia notebooks [2]Well, cheap for UK standards.. Only €1.20 for a Bloc Rhodia N° 12.

Relay

 

Man MugSeen in the catalogue of a distributor of electrical and related products

A Man Mug. Comes of course with a pencil!

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↑1 Not any old chemist, even a dispensing chemist.
↑2 Well, cheap for UK standards.

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Pencil to the rescue!

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Move aside text markers, fine liners and others. It’s time for the hero, the classic, the tough pencil to save the day! Have a lock that needs changing? Use a pencil!

From a Samsonite lock
From a Samsonite lock

Even the instructions say you should use a pencil (and not a ball point pen).

You could try using a ball point pen, but who knows.. that might void your warranty ;^)

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Star Wars pencils

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Even though I prefer Star Trek I like Star Wars, as you can see from the Stormtrooper fountain pen post, but at the moment there is so much Star Wars merchandise everywhere here in the UK, it already seems to be getting a bit too much – maybe not so much because of the quantity, but because a lot of it is just same old, same old.

Star Wars stationery
Star Wars stationery

Saying that: it was nice to see that there are quite a few pencils and pencil related items part of the Star Wars stationery range.

Star Wars stationery
Star Wars stationery

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Monocle again

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Well, after having had a look at Japanese stationery in issue 81 the current issue of Monocle, number 88, includes a Bavaria survey. Quite a few Franconian companies are included as well and even though there are only five sentences in the magazine about Faber-Castell the editors must have thought pencils are sexy enough to put them on the cover of the latest issue.

Faber-Castell on the cover of Monocle magazine
Faber-Castell on the cover of Monocle magazine

They also have a paragraph on Gmund paper, the company that makes the golden envelopes for the Oscars and provides the paper for other big events and companies.

I believe that showing a photo of parts of the Monocle cover in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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