Faber-Castell is a 255-year-old company that makes pencils. How does an established company like this think about innovation, particularly if and when to adopt a new technology? Harvard Business ...

According to Faber-Castell, “It is estimated that about 20,000 million black-lead and color pencils for all kinds of writing and drawing requirements are produced all over the world every year ...

Author Plum Sykes is a devotee of the Perfect Pencil by Graf von Faber-Castell. She has owned it for years and has only had to replace the lead once.

In this video, take a rare look inside the Faber-Castell factory, one of the world’s most iconic pencil manufacturers, to see how millions of pencils are produced with German precision and ...

For contrasting small details, Krusch likes another Faber-Castell pencil — the Clutch — with 0.5-mm lead (artist and licensed art therapist Margot Werner is also a fan of the Faber Castell ...

Staedtler celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2010, while Faber-Castell will celebrate its 250th birthday in summer 2011. But despite this, the two companies have argued about which company can ...

On the pencil's history and myths, ... Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell ILLUSTRATION: ... a step up from the English lead stuffed in European pencils.

Professional artists spend hundreds of dollars collecting high-end colored pencils because of the thoughtful precision with ...

Staedtler celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2010, while Faber-Castell will celebrate its 250th birthday in summer 2011. But despite this, the two companies have argued about which company can ...