Transform your dead office supplies into a Star Wars X-wing fighter using a spent Sharpie marker pen, foldback clips, a strip of staples, a pencil sharpener and some pen lids. Full ingredients and instructions over at Instructables. Reflect on how it all went wrong. Via Boing Boing.
The Ceramic Notepad from Yoyo Ceramics is a jotter made entirely from clay resembling a spiral notebook The ceramic notebook is supplied with a special pencil but dry wipe markers and permanent markers work just as well. All wash off with water. £15 + P&P.
Chinese designer Mike He has fashioned a pencil sharpener after Pinocchio, the fictional character created by Carlo Collodi in the 1880s and popularised by Disney in 1940. Called ‘Honest Pinocchio’, this pencil sharpener positions the pencil where Pinocchio’s nose would be. As the pencil is sharpened, it becomes shorter, signifying honesty on the part of […]
The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, a public and city-owned San Francisco art gallery, bans the use of pencils and Paper at special exhibitions. Sketching remains allowed in the museum’s permanent exhibitions. The ban is the exception rather than the rule. Pencils, for example, are allowed everywhere in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and […]
Looking for news the other day, we came across a site dedicated to pencils called The Pencil Pages, including this illustration of how pencils are made. The site, which has been around for a while and was last updated a year ago, is nevertheless the place to go to find out everything you don’t […]
It’s like an old Disney film. Albert and his lovable chums have some kind of adventure. A friendly child offers them some lovely pencils to chomp on, “have another pencil Albert” he says persuasively. Albert, drunk on the joys of chomping pencils, fails to notice the strange tone in the child’s voice and happily indulges. […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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