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PaperSpecs returns to Chicago on Sept. 26, 2024, with inspiring presentations, how-to workshops, and samples galore!
There are 3 different types of embossing you can use to add dimensionality to your work. This one is...
PaperSpecs returns to Chicago on Sept. 26, 2024, with inspiring presentations, how-to workshops, and samples galore!
Just when we think we’re going to hit a week where we’re going to have a hard time living...
Sometimes the most soul-stirring print design comes from pushing mightily against the very limits of paper itself. This week...
Increasingly print design no longer means “flat design” – far from it. Every day brings new creations that stubbornly...
In the crush of day-to-day work it’s easy to forget that design can do more than simply sell the latest...
When it comes to print, animation and dimension are two things that don’t spring instantly to mind. Yet ever-evolving printing techniques and...
Good design becomes great design when creatives are not only allowed but encouraged to take a risk, which just so...
Few things can quicken our pulse quite like the prospect of cracking open a new book, particularly those that...
The first Cthulhu cool design we flipped for this week isn’t even for paper, but hang it all it stopped us...
Every week we see designs that amaze, inspire, and occasionally unsettle. This week, it’s a stomach-turning thumbs up from...
Nothing quite compares to print when it comes to mementoes of our travels, be they of places we are...
Ebooks may be gaining ground in the publishing world, but as the following examples prove, simply cannot compete with print...
Though we’re a tad too young to have enjoyed the mental meltdown of the ’60s, that’s not to say we...
With the passing of David Bowie still fresh in our minds, we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and...
No matter how slick and functional books become in the digital realm, there is something altogether spiritual that takes...
From the initial spark of an idea to stunning finished product, paper is there to hold our hand every...
Considering our office looks like the scene of a four bookmobile pileup, it’s funny that this is the first...
So what exactly makes for a “cool design?” It can be extremely sophisticated or defiantly utilitarian. It can rejoice in...
There may be no finer human creation than the paper book. The Internet’s a marvel, the combustion engine’s pretty...
“Top this!” is pretty much the theme of this week’s “Cool Designs” as we tackle three projects that pushed...
It’s been a quiet week on Lake Wobegon. Sorry, wrong intro. It’s been a crazy pre-holiday week in print...
This week in design, we ask you to save the date, keep our own travel plans open – way open –...
Occasionally it seems that what makes a piece of print design great isn’t so much what it looks like as...
In an age when the average westerner is bombarded by a veritable fire hose of images every day, crafting...
One of the wonderful things about print design is its potential for showing us new ways to look at things we...
Design, like Forrest Gump’s famous chocolates, is often a case of not knowing what you’re going to get. (Read...
As wed as we are to print perfection, we do occasionally get the wandering eye for non-paper examples of...
