VOLUMES PENCIL RELEASE GUIDE

VOLUMES NUMBER VOLUMES PENCIL VOLUMES SUBJECT PENCIL DETAILS GRAPHITE CORE SUBSCRIBER GIFT RELEASE DATE

Sunburst Gradient inspired by the Fender Stratocaster

Balanced

N/A

July 2015

Natural Exposed Woodgrain

Firm

Cedar Plank engraved with the state of California

September 2015

Stripped Barrel featuring "A Trip to the Moon" Movie Barcode. Our first Volume with a Silver Ferrule

Soft

Movie Barcode Print made from "A Trip to the Moon"

December 2015

Black Barrel with Black Imprint, Black Ferrule and Black Eraser

Extra-firm

Portrait Postcard of John Steinbeck

March 2016

Blue Pinstripe on a White Barrel

Firm

Baseball Scoring Card Kit

July 2016

Deep Red Darkroom Hue Barrel and Red Ferrule

Firm

Pinhole Camera

September 2016

Gold Barrel and Gold Ferrule with a Black Stripe

Extra-firm

Digital Download of "California" by Willy Tea Taylor

December 2016

Green Jade and White Jade variants

Firm

Blackwing Clutch Notebook

March 2017

Tahoe Blue Barrel with a raised texture of the lake's topography

Soft

Donation to "Keep Tahoe Blue" and Bumper Sticker

June 2017

Matte Grey Washcoat Finish

Balanced

Guy Clark Embroidered Patch

September 2017

Matte White Barrel and Black Ferrule

Firm

Cal Cedar Centennial Pencil

December 2017

Rose Barrel with Teal Imprint

Extra-firm

"Exquisite Corpse" Games

March 2018

Red Stained Barrel with "壱万壱" Imprint

Firm

Custom designed KenKen Puzzles

June 2018

Matte Black Barrel with Gloss Black banding to emulate the grooves on a vinyl record

Balanced

Vinyl in a Bottle

September 2018

Rust Colored Laquer with Sand-Textured Finish

Soft

Solar System illustration by Samantha Dion Baker

December 2018

Emerald Gradient Glow-in-the-Dark Finish

Firm

Glow-in-the-Dark Bookmark

March 2019

Matte Grey Newsprint Barrel

Extra-firm

"Ten Days in a Mad-house" Newspaper

June 2019

White Barrel with Blue Imprint, Red "42" and "Road Gray" Ferrule

Balanced

"Road Gray" Point Guard

August 2019

Bauhaus inspired colors and shapes with a first-ever Black eraser clip

Soft

Bauhaus Eraser Set

November 2019

Sea Green Barrel with a Gold Foil accent in the shape of the California coastline

Balanced

Vol. 840 Clutch Notebook

March 2020

Tumeric Barrel with an "ॐ" (Om) pattern

Extra-firm

Aparjita Incense

June 2020

Purple Barrel and Three-sided White and Golden Yellow Imprint inspired by the Suffrage flag

Firm

"Inalienable" Yellow Rose Pin

August 2020

Neon Red and Neon Blue variants

Soft

Vol. 6 "Support Local" Pin Set

December 2020

Illustrated design inspired by This Land’s “ribbon of highway,” “endless skyway” and “golden valley”

Balanced

Woody Guthrie Archives Postcards

March 2021

Halftone design inspired by the earliest comic books.

Firm

Mike Hawthrone Comic Print

June 2021

Black and yellow stripe inspired by his iconic look.

Extra-firm

Bruce Lee Core Symbol Patch and Sticker

September 2021

Six designs each inspired by Corita's Rainbow Swash

Soft

Corita Kent frame viewfinder

December 2021

Copper barrel with a copper ferrule

Firm

Burlap bag with coffee-inspired screenprint

March 2022

Grey and blue stripes formulated using the Fibonacci sequence.

Balanced

Golden Ratio viewfinder

June 2022

Interlaced image that forms a picket-fence animation of Wile E. Coyote

Balanced

DIY Zoetrope analog animation device

September 2022

Blackwing 192

The lyrics of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The color prism design with a Lennon-McCartney lyric stamped on each pencil.

Extra-Firm

Lennon-McCartney Lyrics Greeting Card

December 2022

Celebrates tabletop games and the cherished moments they can create

Raised polyhedron design inspired by gaming dice

Firm

Blackwing D20 Dice

March 2023

Tribute to Jean-Michel Basquiat and his boundary pushing art.

Wrapped design featuring one of Basquiat's iconic skull paintings

Soft

Vol. 57 Replacement Erasers

June 2023

Examines the mindful practice of gardening.

Earth-toned color palette: olive green finish

Balanced

Plant ID Tags

September 2023

Art’s role in bringing about change.

Cracked Glow-in-the-Dark design

2X Firm

"Art Creates Change" Print

December 2023