{"id":5766,"date":"2020-03-30T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:54:56","slug":"national-pencil-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/national-pencil-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pencil Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Pencil Day March 30th<\/h2>\n

The humble mark of a human. We’ve moved a long way from chipping runes in stones, scratching Roman wax tablets, one significant find was that of a special form of carbon. Borrowdale is well known for its beautiful scenery and scrummy tea bread<\/a> especially served with cheese.<\/a> However, in around 1565 a ‘lead like’ substance was discovered that could be used to make a clean defined mark. This was ultimately the birth of the pencil, and an industry in Keswick. If you visit there really is a museum<\/a> for all things pencil.<\/p>\n

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Surprising how many pencils are in my desk tidy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pencil day<\/a> seeks to reconnect us with the humble pencil. The tool used by artists, designers and writers for hundreds of years. Why not take a picture of the chewed, blunt, or exquisite drawing tools and post them (#PencilDay<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Whilst we would definitely advocate Cradle as a preferred design tool, allowing cross references and traceability, not something you get on paper**<\/sup>. The humble sketch is still a goto design tool. And we should remember that.<\/p>\n

Take a 5 minute coffee break; Sketch what your product does or your company makes, with a pencil and paper and then post it! (#PencilDay<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Cradle Operations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We found some handy suggestions of other ways to celebrate here at pens.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Go on, celebrate pencil day and sketch away!<\/p>\n

**<\/sup>Updating manual cross references between your sketches and text is possible with pencil and eraser, but easier if the database looks after it!<\/div>\n