Duke Ellington and erasers
“I’m happy to report that Duke Ellington’s name no longer appears on the Blackwing Experience page.”
Duke Ellington, Blackwing Johnson’s Baby Powder user
“The context for this post, as explained in an earlier post: a pencil company’s choice to market its merchandise by using the Ellington name.”
Duke Ellington, sombrero user
“A pencil manufacturer’s association of the Ellington name with its replica version of the Blackwing pencil is a matter of very wishful thinking. Others might call it misleading.”
Duke Ellington, balalaika user
“The context for this post is a pencil company’s choice to market its merchandise by using the Ellington name.”
Duke Ellington, Blackwing pencils, and aspirational branding
“It’s curious that as Moleskine steps back from the abyss of aspirational branding (‘the legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, and Chatwin’), California Cedar has jumped in, head first, without even putting on a helmet.”
Duke Ellington and a Blackwing
EKE, in a BBC studio, at work with a Blackwing pencil.