Posts Tagged 'writing'
Why Pencils Are Yellow
Published November 2, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: handwriting, Hardtmuth Pencil, history, No2 pencil, Number 2 Pencil, penmanship, writing
Inside One of The US’s Last Pencil Factories
Published January 15, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: factory, General Pencil Company, graphite, Jersey City, manufacturing, New Jersey, pencil, writing, writing instrument
A pencil is a little wonder-wand: a stick of wood that traces the tiniest motions of your hand as it moves across a surface. I am using one now, making weird little loops and slashes to write these words. As a tool, it is admirably sensitive. The lines it makes can be fat or thin, screams or whispers, blocks of concrete or blades of grass, all depending on changes of pressure so subtle that we would hardly notice them in any other context.
Even as other factories have chased higher profit margins overseas, General Pencil has stayed put, cranking out thousands upon thousands of writing instruments in the middle of Jersey City.
A Short History Of The Wingdings Font [video]
Published March 15, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: desktop publishing, dtp, font, history, printing, type, typesetting, video, Wingdings, Wingdings Font, writing
Art Of Calligraphy [video]
Published October 7, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: calligraphy, design, modern art, penmanship, Seb Lester, video, writing
Written by Hand – A Fading Art [video]
Published July 23, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: calligraphy, Canada, penmanship, Ryan Couldrey, Tanja Tiziana, Toronto, video, writing, written word
More Than You Want To Know About Pencils [infographic]
Published April 16, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Drawing, graphite, history, infographic, lead pencil, pen, pencil, penmanship, writing
The complete(?) history of the lowly lead pencil is contained in this infographic.
12 Letters That Didn’t Make The Alphabet
Published December 19, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: alphabet, Alphabetography, Ampersand, Ash, “That”, Dictionary, Eng, English language, Eth, Ethel, Etymology, Insular G, Long S, Thorn, Tironian “Ond”, words, writing, Wynn, Yogh
You know the alphabet. It’s one of the first things you’re taught in school. But did you know that they’re not teaching you all of the alphabet? There are quite a few letters we tossed aside as our language grew, and you probably never even knew they existed.
Read about forgotten letters such as; Long S, Wynn, Yogh, Ethel and 8 others, HERE
When Words Explain Themselves In Images
Published June 27, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: definition, font, Fontophile, graphics, lexicography, type junkie, typography, Word, writing
Mindjunker posted an interesting collection of words that show the words’ definitions with simple graphic enhancements. Fontophiles and type junkies will love it.
How To Sharpen A Pencil – Like A Boss
Published April 4, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: April 1st, April Fools, graphite, how-to, lead, pencil, Sharpen, Shaving, writing
More than anyone needs to know about sharpening pencils.
Step Four: Monitoring the Shavings’ Egress
Etsy published this article on April 1, 2012.