If you’re a fan of calming ASMR, you’re in for a real treat. In this episode of MADE HERE—filmed at the Voskresenskaya Pencil Factory, about 50 miles southwest of Moscow—we’re taking you through the ...

Mitsubishi Pencil Company (TYO)’s benches outside its new offices in Tokyo are elegantly fitting. A Twitter user walking by the company’s next headquarters, which is under construction, noticed ...

NOW IS A good time to revisit Leonard Read’s essay. In 1958, Read examined how a pencil is made — how it is miraculous that a pencil is made at all. The standard pencil begins when a cedar is cut down ...