While most of the world prepares to usher in the new year by drinking, saying and fighting way too...
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Just when you think that paper can’t possibly get any smoother, someone goes and hips you to the fact...
Oooo. My first reaction belongs to my fingers. The feel of the paper was deliciously buttery. Ohhh. My second...
It’s been a nice little Christmas break for those of us fortunate enough to have one. If anything, we’ve...
Despite plunging newsstand sales throughout the magazine industry, People magazine will be starting off the new year by plowing...
The deadlines, the clients, the endless entreaties to create the impossible on little money and in less time –...
As we wrap up the paper-related news of 2013, it occurs to us that one story happened so quietly...
Ah, Boxing Day. Now that the gifts have been unwrapped and the family Skyped, it’s high time we turned...
This couple’s meeting in Japan during cherry blossom season inspired the graceful and sophisticated design of their wedding invitation:...
Isn’t it amazing how little touches we take for granted in the digital world become landmark events in print?...
Imagine it: December 1956 … Memphis, Tennessee … a chance meeting between Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis,...
A good map can show you how to get where you want to go. A great map forces you...
Oh for the good old days when the biggest worry a professional had regarding their family’s personal holiday cards...
Throughout the hectic business year we wield paper as impersonally as any other tool in our arsenal; hazard of...
It’s a little litany that plays through our mind every time we deploy a sticky note; “Every time you...
If you’re not quite sure what to get that label-conscious person on your list, you’re sure to score some...
As the year winds down, we take stock of the leading luminaries in various fields we’ve lost in 2013....
It’s been a crazy old year around PaperSpecs Towers, particularly with our long-lived Paper Tips column. At some point...
Coming-of-age ceremonies are special events in many cultures. The Jewish Bat Mitzvah invitation for this young woman combines tradition...
If you steer toward this design thinking, you’ll sail waters that are friendly and professional, unassuming and arresting,...
It’s a rare treat to see a series of four consecutive annual corporate invitations all at once like this....
The mountainous Colorado countryside filled with lavender, rosemary and sage. The elegant textures, surfaces and architecture of a historic...
By signing the Yosemite Grant Act of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln set aside the scenic natural areas of Mariposa...
What do you get when you cross a designer with a love of typography and a passion for crafts?...
The Japanese squeeze an awful lot out of their comics, or “manga”. There’s action manga for boys, romance manga...
We know we must be missing something…I mean we do occasionally miss something, especially this close to the holidays....
It’s a funny thing. When Newsweek stopped publishing its print edition this time last year, the news barely even...
Getting your static direct-mail piece to stand out in an animated world has always been a challenge, which is...
Better, brighter and easier on the environment – that pretty much sums up today’s announcement from FutureMark Paper Group...
As business models go, it was never a very sustainable one. Still, after nearly 150 years in operation, it...