Inside the pencil factory

Pencils are a core product for Australian newsagencies. While they have travelled a significant distance from where began, they remain vital today as new generations buy them in good numbers.

With this in mind, I encourage you to take a moment to read a wonderful article, Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories.

In an era of infinite screens, the humble pencil feels revolutionarily direct: It does exactly what it does, when it does it, right in front of you. Pencils eschew digital jujitsu. They are pure analog, absolute presence. They help to rescue us from oblivion.

This article is a beautiful piece of writing about a wonderful factory where they make an item important to us for decades.