Blackwing Blog

With the reveal, the focus was on what was on the pencil; how we took the entirety of Georges Mélies’ A Trip to the Moon and fit it on a pencil. Today, we’re going to look at how...

Using a process known as movie barcoding, we condensed A Trip to the Moon into individual bands of color (shout out to Melvyn over at Arcane Sanctum for his awesome open source movie barcoding program). We then set out...

It turns out, Blackwing has more ties to John Muir than just the new 211 edition pencil.

When we started brainstorming ideas for our second Volumes edition, we knew we wanted to show a different side of the program. The 725 was a musician’s pencil: loud and in your face. The 211 is just the...

Last week, we had the pleasure of meeting Sammy Brue, a 14 year-old folk musician from Ogden, Utah. He told us a story with a surprise Blackwing connection.

The teams at Levi’s and Fort Lonesome, a custom western wear designer out of Austin, TX, collaborated to bring custom denim jackets to the artists and attendees at this year’s festival. When they reached out to us and...

If you’ve been following us for the past few months, you probably know the number 725 has some sort of significance. Not only was it the number of our first Volumes edition, July 27th also marked the date...

Read about how the idea of Blackwing Volume 725 came to be. Hint: it has to do with music, specifically the Newport Folk Festival. Learn more here.