BIC Cristal Original Ballpoint , Comfortable Biro Pens, Medium Point (1.0mm), Assorted Colours, Pack of 10

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Between 1949 and 1950 the Bic Cristal was designed by the Décolletage Plastique design team at Société PPA.

For smaller or precise writing styles, the Bic Cristal Blue Ultra Fines Ballpoint Pens are perfect for you. The pens come in four different colours: black, blue, green and red - black is the most popular Bic colour in the UK. mm point on these BIC Orange Original Fine pens was designed for people who love thin precise lines.The only exception is the BIC Cristal UP, a pen marketed by Bic that supposedly creates more vivid lines when used. In 1953 advertising executive Pierre Guichenné advised Bich to shorten his family name to Bic as an easy-to-remember, globally adaptable trade name for the pen, which fit in with product branding trends of the post-war era. A small hole in the barrel insures that the air pressure is the same inside the pen and outside, helping to prevent the ink from leaking. The classic BIC Cristal Original pen with its clear hexagonal barrel and high-quality ink, is the world’s best-selling ballpoint pen as it now last twice as long as most commonly known ballpoint pens, this box contains 50 black ballpoint pens which will keep you going for a while! The Museum of Modern Art in New York City recognised the Bic Cristal's industrial design by introducing it into the museum's permanent collection.

Ballpoint pens, also known as ball pens or biros, have a barrel filled with oil-based ink which is distributed with a small sphere in the tip. It was then changed to tungsten carbide, which is made from fusing carbon and tungsten together at a heat of a whopping 2000 degrees Celsius! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Released in 1950 by French company Bic, the Bic pen (officially named Bic Cristal) helped to change the pen market from fountain pens to ballpoint.To broaden its range of stationery products, BIC purchases Wite-Out®, a famous American brand of correction products. This site is registered and owned by Staples inc in the USA and operated in the UK under license to Banner Group Limited.

Take your writing up a notch with beautiful pens and sketch away with our pencils to create your next masterpiece.If you’ve ever wondered why they have a hole in the top, it’s to comply with health and safety regulations!