March 2011
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
5h 11m
English
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no. 27
SELECTED BYLIZ DANZICOEBERHARD FABER MONGOL 482 PENCILDESIGNED BYEBERHARD FABER
Like a paintbrush, a musical instrument, a keyboard—objects that give textual or visual form to idea—the pencil holds enormous potential. And yet, for an object so powerful, it’s incredibly simple.
The pencil is intuitive. Its form so familiar, it’s invisible in our everyday experience. In grammar school, we’re taught the proper way to hold a pencil, but its directions for use are otherwise unspoken. There are no user manuals, no instructions for care, no troubleshooting guides. The pencil, with its potential to visualize our most intimate creative thoughts, has no barrier to use, directly linking thought to medium to audience.
The Eberhard Faber Mongol—the ...