In 1944, Marcel Bich, a young Frenchman who had just finished serving in World War II, needed a job. He found work at a stationary wholesaler selling ink pots and quills. At the time, the ballpoint ...

Would you pay $180 for a new type of writing instrument? Image via The New York Times On a crisp fall morning in late October 1945, approximately 5,000 shoppers rushed the 32 nd street Gimbel’s ...

We asked local executives to tell us either their favorite pen or how much they’d pay for a pen. Here’s what they had to say: Rocky Wirtz, Blackhawks chairman: He’s carried the same Montblanc ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...

There are three inevitabilities we will experience during our time on this mortal coil: we are born, we will die, and sometime in between, we will use a BIC Cristal pen. The company claims to have ...

When I recently purchased some personalized stationary for work (a hand written thank you note in this digital age can get you more attention than landing a jet on the Hudson), I set out to find a pen ...

Recently, Bic launched a campaign to “save handwriting.” Named “Fight for Your Write,” it includes a pledge to “encourage the act of handwriting” in the pledge-taker’s home and community, and ...