Crossword puzzles have been a fixture in New York Magazine’s pages since the first issue hit newsstands in 1968 — in which the puzzle was created by none other than Stephen Sondheim. (He even wrote a ...

Pencils have been used to make comic books for over a century, and now a pencil has been made to honor that legacy - and perhaps make a few of your own. As part of their Volumes series, the ...

Using the Notes app on your iPhone is a little bit like shouting into the void: you open the white-lined screen, reminiscent of a piece of paper and jot down a quick thought, idea or appointment — and ...

Writing with a Blackwing is like swabbing a pad of butter across warm toast. It glides. The Palomino Blackwing 602 is my favorite pencil. Welcome to Senior Week at Gawker Media! Here’s the lowdown: We ...

Put a pencil in Woody Guthrie’s hand and magic happened. Whether it was timeless folk songs like “This Land Is Your Land” or the many sketches, poems and paintings he created, Guthrie was a true ...

Blackwing pencils were first produced in the 1930s when the 602 model was introduced by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company. It was known for its soft, dark graphite and square eraser and garnered a ...

The Guy Clark Pencil from Blackwing Break down walls. The 1970s outlaw country movement that paved the way for what many now refer to as Americana music had many influences. Perhaps none were more ...

From woodworkers to Broadway legends, artists to Pulitzer Prize winners, one indispensable tool unites them all: a pencil known as the Blackwing 602. Created in the 1930s by Eberhard Faber, this ...