A Desktop Tribute to Colored Pencils: The 36 Pencil Bowl

Tricky to use and impractical? Takes up too much space on a desktop? Maybe these things and more, but I can't take my eyes off of industrial designer Michiel Cornelissen's 36 Pencil Bowl. "It's a tribute to the ubiquitous, and lovely, hexagonal colour pencil," writes Utrecht-based Cornelissen. "It's also a representative of a new internet-friendly production model: combining relatively simple, locally available materials with high tech, custom designed interface parts." The bowl, which...