Press Update
Some amazing coverage over the last few day leading up to the Secret Pencil launch event! Click here for a link to the individual articles…. Link
FrizziFrizzi.it
No-one at SecretPencils HQ speaks Italian, but we are guessing the people at FrizziFrizzi.it like the project. If you speak Italian, do let us know what they are saying…
Creative Review
Creative Review, the latest design blog to pick us up. Click the image to read the article
Quintessentially Pencils
Flattered to be given the quintessential once-over. Click the image for the full article.
https://www.quintessentially.com/insider/the-secret-life-of-the-pencil
Vanity Fair Newsletter & Competition
Thanks to the people at Vanity Fair this weekend, we took pride of place on the front page of their emailer! A great piece and a great chance to attend the private view launch on the 19th May…
“Paul Smith offers all Vanity Fair A-List subscribers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a champagne reception to The Secret Life of the Pencillaunch on 19th May 2015. To enter this prize draw, please send your details (name, address, email, telephone) to [email protected] by 12pm on Friday 8th May. Terms and conditions apply.”
http://www.alist.vanityfair.co.uk/a-list/
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@vanityfairuk
We think that Tom Dixon looks pretty good next to Jeremy & Jemima
UK FUNDRAISING
Great to have the support of UK Fundraising promoting our project in support of Children in Crisis
Thomas Heatherwick on board…
The man that designs bridges, buildings, buses and flaming cauldrons has kindly offered to be part of our project. The pencil (and pencil holder) was beautiful and a very treasure possession, so we borrowed it for just a day, photographed it at SecretPencil HQ and it is now back in the hands of Mr Heatherwick. Here is a picture of one of his latest projects – We love it.
National Pencil Day – 30th March
Not so celebrated here in the UK, but it does exist and here is why… (thanks to National Day Calendar)
Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil on this day in 1858.
The majority of pencils made in the United States are painted yellow. It is believed that this tradition began in 1890 when the L & C Hardtmuth Company of Austria-Hungary introduced their Koh-I-Noor brand, named after the famous diamond. This pencil was intended to be the world’s best and most expensive pencil. Other companies then began to copy the yellow color so that their pencils would be associated with the high quality brand.
Thanks to Greg for the image