Pencils, Not for Writing Alone

As it happens, we aren't the only pencil-lovers in the world. The fellows at JAD Projectcreated beautiful hand-carved pencil sculptures years ago:

Artist Jennifer Maestre produces eerily beautiful creature forms using colored pencils which she's cut and strung like beads:

To help celebrate its centenary, Faber Castell commissioned all kinds of pencil sculptures from German artist Kerstin Schulz, using thousands of sharpened ‘Castell 9000’ pencils:

Finally, here's a slightly more comfortable looking bench, from 3D Creative Solutions: