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Willy Tea Taylor
WILLY TEA TAYLOR Name: Willy Tea Taylor Pencil Hand: right Craft: Singer/Songwriter Brand: N/A Location: Oakdale, CA willyteataylor.com @willyteataylor “One of the most important American...
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Pink, Black and White, Oh My!
PINK, BLACK AND WHITE, OH MY! Eraser and imprint updates coming to our core Blackwing pencils. Posted by Alexander Poirier – 09/05/2017 Change is in the air. Ever since we revived the Blackwing pencil...
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Blackwing Volumes – Blackwing 1
September 2017 VOLUME 1 The Guy Clark pencil. Inspired by Guy Clark and his perfectly imperfect style. Break down walls. The 1970s outlaw country movement that paved the way for what many now refer to...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: Blackwing 1
Behind the Scenes: Blackwing 1 Posted by Grant Christensen – 09/26/2017 Well, this one has been in the works for a while. Guy Clark was on the short list of people we thought this program should honor...
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Blackwing Store Profile – Oxford Exchange – Tampa, FL
BLACKWING STORE PROFILE OXFORD EXCHANGE – TAMPA, FL by Alexander Poirier – 10/16/2017 Earlier this month, we partnered with our friends at Oxford Exchange in Tampa, FL to host a live drawing session...
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Inside the Pencil Pouch
INSIDE THE BLACKWING PENCIL POUCH by Alexander Poirier – 11/02/17 We’ve teamed up with the awesome guys at Bradley Mountain for our second carry collaboration, the Blackwing Pencil Pouch. This project...
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Blackwing Volumes – Blackwing 16.2
December 2017 VOLUME 16.2 The Ada Lovelace pencil. Inspired by the Prophet of the Computer Age. Imagination at work. From an early age, Ada Lovelace, the only child of Romantic poet Lord Byron and...
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Adam Reineck
ADAM REINECK Name: Adam Reineck Pencil hand: Right Craft: Industrial Design Brand: IDEO.org Location: San Francisco, CA @areineck IDEO.org “For me, the pencil is great partner to the pen – pencils...
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#SharpenYourSkills – National Handwriting Day 2018
#SHARPENYOURSKILLS – NATIONAL HANDWRITING DAY 2018 by Nupur Patel • 01/31/2018 In celebration of National Handwriting Day, artists agreed to collaborate with us and create a special piece that showed...
View ArticleBlackwing Music to Release Johnny Irion’s Driving Friend [Press Release]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 03/09/18 Alexander Poirier Blackwing Music 209/932.5008 alexander@blackwingmusic.com FOLK-ROCKER JOHNNY IRION TO RELEASE SOLO ALBUM DRIVING FRIEND Album to be released on the...
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Volume 54 – The Exquisite Corpse Pencil
March 2018 VOLUME 54 The Exquisite Corpse pencil. Unleash the creativity of the unconscious. Simply Exquisite. The Surrealist movement of the early 20th century sought to channel the unconscious as a...
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The Exquisite Corpse – Behind the Design of Volume 54
The Exquisite Corpse started off as a parlor game invented and widely used by poets and artists during the Surrealist movement. Surrealists loved Exquisite Corpse because they thought it helped them...
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Surrealism 101
Surrealism began as a literary movement in the early 20th century, but blossomed into one of the most influential artistic and ideological movements of all time. Best known for its bizarre visual...
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The Women of Surrealism
Surrealism’s early years were dominated by men. As the movement spread, however, both male and femail artists from around the world tapped into its inspiring ethos. Today we would like to shine the...
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Samantha Dion Baker
SAMANTHA DION BAKER Name: Samantha Dion Baker Pencil hand: Right Craft: Illustration / Design Brand: N/A Location: Brooklyn, NY @sdionbakerdesign sdionbaker.com “Just force yourself to smile, and...
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Paul Stoll
PAUL STOLL Name: Paul Stoll Pencil Hand: Right Craft: Jewelry designer and goldsmith Brand: Goldfinger Jewelry Location: San Francisco, CA https://goldfinger.jewelry @goldfingersf “Whenever I seem to...
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Volume 10001 – The Puzzle Pencil
June 2018 SOLD OUT VOLUME 10001 The Puzzle Pencil. Exercise your mind. [avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="0"] “The Art of Teaching without Teaching” When Tetsuya Miyamoto invented the KenKen® puzzle in...
View ArticleA Challenge from Miyamoto Sensei
In every box of Blackwing 10001 pencils, there is a challenge from Miyamoto Sensei himself. The challenge comes in the form of the following equation: ABABABAB/ABAB = C•D In this equation, A and B can...
View Article6 Brain Exercises to Stimulate Your Mind and Unlock Your Creativity
According to psychologists Sternberg and Davidson, puzzles require “the ability to compare hidden information in a puzzle with information already in memory.” In other words, they require the ability...
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Heather Martinez
HEATHER MARTINEZ Name: Heather Leavitt Martinez Pencil Hand: Right Craft: Visual Practitioner (graphic facilitator and visual coach) Brand: LetsLetterTogether.com Location: Durango, CO...
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