The centennial of the Crayola crayon this year is more a celebration of the brand’s prominence as an icon in American culture than of the birth of the waxy object itself. Crayolas were not the country ...

"Using crayons is our first solid attempt at putting our thoughts on paper," said David Shayt, a cultural history specialist with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. "It is a form of ...

Crayola bid farewell to the crayon color dandelion on Friday, a dark shade of yellow introduced in 1990. Formerly called Binney & Smith, the Easton, Pennsylvania-based company has been producing ...

Few things stir up childhood nostalgia as quickly as a fresh box of crayons. It's easy to see what makes them an appealing collectors' item. For Ed Welter, a former Nike project manager from Oregon, ...

To collect crayons is to draw a new sense of history. The history of art, and the history of corporations. The history of pop culture and the history of history itself, which turns out to be far more ...

A spokesman for Binney & Smith, maker of Crayola crayons, denies that the company has run out of ideas. But he admitted that the Easton, Pa., company had failed to develop names for 16 new crayons and ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

Crayola bid farewell to the crayon color dandelion on Friday, a dark shade of yellow introduced in 1990. Formerly called Binney & Smith, the Easton, Pennsylvania-based company has been producing ...