Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

The Japanese concept of continuous industrial improvement helps to explain Beijing’s technological success. Read more at ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

a Decepticon whose alt-form is a literal ballpoint pen of normal size. If you thought G1 Megatron's transformation into a hand-held pistol was kinda weird, Ballpoint takes that same sort of ...

Ballpoint pen is artist Mike Nudelman’s instrument of choice. The Santa Fe-based artist has worked with ballpoint pen on paper over the last decade. His works will be featured in the show “Yet ...

Known as a ballpoint pen, it used a tiny ... Made from anodised aircraft aluminium, they featured a sleek, Art Deco design, giving them a modern look despite their functional flaws.