Happy Black Friday! We’re taking the day to republish some of our most popular Wanted posts of the year. For a complete roundup, go here.–Eds. In design circles, you hear the word “delight” a lot.

D&AD, the global non-profit championing excellence in design and commercial creativity, has revealed this year's D&AD Awards ...

The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

On an English summer's day when the sun refuses to shine, I need only open my tin of Swiss pencils. The pigments in the leads of Prismalo Aquarelles, made by Caran D'Ache in Geneva, are enough to ...

London designers Studiolav have declared the pencil redundant and redesigned it for life in a pencil-pot graveyard. The Design is Dead Pencil has a cruciform shape and comes in black, of course.