260 years of Faber-Castell: Social media campaign celebrates creativity
The long-established company is celebrating its anniversary with fans all over the world – and is launching an interactive, global social media campaign to mark the occasion.
The long-established company is celebrating its anniversary with fans all over the world – and is launching an interactive, global social media campaign to mark the occasion.
The proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) are exemplary for the prosecution of war crimes and to this day represent a unique media event that has attracted international attention. From 1945-1949, most of the media representatives found accommodation in the Faber-Castell Castle, which was converted into a press camp by the US Army and used as such.
At a length of 174 millimetres and a diameter of 7 millimetres, its standard dimensions are seemingly negligible and rather unremarkable. But what does standard mean anyway? After all, over its centuries-long career the pencil has not only evolved into one of the most important objects on desks around the world... An everyday hero: here are five surprising pencil anecdotes from around the globe.