I don’t know about you but even though we are in the thick of the festive season it doesn’t seem to be all that Christmassy. A neighbour is a keen crafter & suggested I might like to follow in her footsteps & try my hand at making some decorations to help me get in the Christmas mood.
Having given this some thought & armed with a few Metallic Marker Pens I came up with a couple of ideas & thought I’d share them with you.
Crowdfunding has become a bit of a buzz word but have you heard of Crowd Art? Now it seems artists are inviting others to add to their creations.
As part of Penvolution an international project originating in Hanover, the PencilMobileRoom has been constructed with the help of donations from Faber-Castell using around 1 million pencils.
Sakura was the first to manufacturer a Gel Pen, over 35 years ago and this was officially recognised in the early noughties when Sakura was presented with the “Award of the Director-General of the Japanese Patent Office”
The road to success was not an easy one, prototypes failed, the team’s ideas led to many dead ends & tested more than a thousand materials whilst trying to perfect the ideal gel ink.
Mention robots & I think of Daleks & Star Wars but never in a million years would I think of trying to make one. If you on the other hand are interested in creating a bot of your own then 3D printing apparently makes it easy.
Despite computers being an essential part of everyday life to many of us, global sales of pens & pencils are …