January 04, 2006

Loudstyle.

Our Comrade Loudstyle writes about his new-found love for pencils:

"I have always used pencils (who hasn't?) but the reviews on Pencil Revolution alerted me to their finer details. I realized I had a couple decent pencils around the house and I tried out some others to see what all the fuss was about. I soon became pretty well addicted...

....Keith Haring Doubles from Acme Writing Tools. I received a nice metal tin containing a dozen of these fine pencils for Christmas several years ago. They feature the colorful and energetic artwork of Keith Haring. For the longest time I shied away from using them often because they looked too nice to sharpen away. I finally got over that silliness and now use them regularly."

Read about the rest of some favorite pencils at Loudstyle.

[Image and text, Loudstyle. Used with kind permission.]

4 Comments:

Blogger Speedmaster thinks...

You guys won't be happy until I start buying expensive pencils now too. ;-)

I'm already using a Faber-Castell E-Motion pencil.

Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

January 04, 2006 1:53 PM  
Blogger jabbott thinks...

Actually Chris, one of the reasons I got pulled in was that many of the pencils are not expensive. The Mirados and Dixons are two or three bucks per pack of 8 or 10 pencils.

January 04, 2006 4:57 PM  
Anonymous Steve thinks...

I found an on-line retailer that sells pencils from the Acme Design studio. They don't have any of the Keith Haring pencils, but they have several others that look good.

http://www.parkleigh.com/Products/ProductList.cfm?CategoryName=AcmeStudio&ProductCategory=Pencil

They come in a nice presentation box, an example of which you can see on the Acme web site:

http://www.acmestudio.com/products/products.htm

January 05, 2006 12:49 PM  
Blogger jabbott thinks...

The Keith Haring ones I have are dated 2001. I'm not sure what type of wood is in them - it is very dark. Of the current Acme styles, I like the Blueprint design.

January 05, 2006 4:10 PM  

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