Blackwing Collaborates with TRAVELER’S COMPANY

We've teamed up with our friends at TRAVELER'S COMPANY to create a new capsule collection dedicated to our shared love for all things pencils and paper.

Lore Master: The History of Tabletop Gaming – Part 1

Though tabletop games may seem like a modern pastime with popular choices like Scrabble and Settlers of Catan, their origins stretch back before written history. The first known examples of gaming and game pieces were crude dice found in archaeological…
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Blackwing Vol. 20: Tabletop Gaming – Behind the Design

The Blackwing Volume 20 pencil celebrates tabletop gaming and the cherished moments they create. The design for this special edition takes inspiration from the polyhedron 20-sided dice used in popular tabletop roleplaying games such as Dungeons…

Blackwing Vol. 192 – Behind the Design

The Color Prism/Venn Diagram design depicted on the Blackwing Vol. 192 is a visual representation of these two disparate, but interdependent voices and how they come together to create something beautiful. It was noted during their collaborative years, that Lennon and McCartney held each other as both rivals and inspirations, pushing one another to be better and continue to innovate.

Introducing Vol. 192 – The Lennon & McCartney Pencils

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Blackwing 192 is a tribute to Lennon and McCartney and the estimated 192 songs they wrote together. The color prism design depicts the convergence of two powerful creative forces. A different Lennon-McCartney lyric is foil stamped on each pencil, for a total of twelve different lyrics in the set.
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The Evolution of Animation – Blackwing Vol. 7

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Blackwing Volume 7 celebrates the history of animation. Vol. 7's unique design features 6 different interlaced patterns that form a 7-frame animation when seen through a viewfinder. The viewfinder uses a process known as "picket fence animation"…

Chuck Jones Creativity Pad Inspiration

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Introducing the Chuck Jones Creativity Pad, our first-ever landscape orientation notebook. Chuck Jones preferred a wide canvas for his sketches. The Creativity Pad is designed to give creative minds the largest unrestricted canvas possible.…

The Legacy of Chuck Jones – Blackwing Vol. 7

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"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in your love and whatever skill you have and it will come out." Over the last century, there may not be anyone more synonymous with their body of work than the legendary…

Vol. 7 Behind the Design – Picket Fence Animation Tutorial

Each set of Blackwing Vol. 7 pencils comes with six unique designs. When side by side and matched with the corresponding colored dots, they form a 7-frame animation that can be seen using the included Picket-Fence viewfinder.

De Divina Proportione: The Golden Ratio Applied in Art

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The Golden Ratio is a mathematical value that appears all throughout the natural world. When applied to the arts, it becomes a tool for creating balanced, organic works. Artists throughout history have tried to emulate the sense of natural…