W Conran Design’s graphic design for last year’s Paris Olympics has won D&AD’s highest accolade. The Black Pencil is reserved ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when ...

Today, many U.S. companies use a numbering system for general purpose pencils that specifies how hard the lead is. For graphic and artist pencils and for companies outside the U.S., systems get a ...

Three Black Pencils were awarded at D&AD this year: in graphic design for the Paris Olympics; in digital design for Spotify; and in music videos for Taylor Swift and A$AP Rocky. All outstanding work, ...

The graphic designer was originally ... from the Cambridge School of Art. Her playful, simple pieces burst with child-like creativity, turning pencil shavings into a lion’s mane or a cape ...