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Sharpen up: How pencil-maker Viarco secured global fans and healthy profits
One of the advantages of using a pencil rather than a pen is that graphite allows for experimentation (and mistakes to be erased); for sketching ideas before making them permanent. It’s this same notion…
Art
See the light
In 2014, designers Rita Múrias and Paulo Barata began collecting neon signs for their aesthetic qualities.
Culture
Soaring symbol
In Portugal, one swallow doesn’t make a summer: thousands of them do. Ceramic versions of the bird are produced in huge numbers and feature in most Portuguese homes. Why the avian allure?
