Designing gifts for your clients is a unique opportunity to demonstrate the full range of your studio’s creativity –...
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If you had to distill the essence of your company into artwork that could fit on a single dollar...
The Junglendar 2017 calendar is a set of 12 sheets (printed on an HP Indigo 30000 press) – one for...
Young children are notorious for preferring to play with the boxes items arrive in more than the items themselves....
Raising money is never easy, particularly if, like the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver), your exhibitions occasionally...
Esperanto might never have really taken off, but the Internet seems to be in the process of moving us...
What’s the best way to promote a stencil-like typeface? With a stencil-like specimen book, naturally! Foundry Nootype‘s book devoted...
These sweltering months may not put you immediately in mind of the holidays, but they are coming nevertheless, with...
An excellent example of how the right design and paper can be not just “pretty useful” but downright essential....
Thinking back on it now, few expressions of friendship or love were ever as truly intimate as someone putting...
At a time when our culture lives, sleeps and breathes irony, it takes a lot to capture people’s attention...
Whenever someone laments that there’s nothing new to get excited about in printing these days, I simply hand them...
Straight from our “The Right Paper Makes all the Difference” Dept., this stunning face-off between raptor and reptile gets...
Like Christmas carols and love for your fellow man, nothing has a shorter shelf-life than holiday-themed client gifts which...
Of all the challenges you face as a designer, there’s probably none greater than that of branding yourself. How...
Millennia before the dollar was king, luxury textiles were some of the most valuable commodities around. It’s an image...
Though we’ve been told for years to “provide your audience with an experience,” it actually happens so infrequently that...
What I’m about to say is the type of thing I never share with people who “aren’t in the business”...
Some people are thankful for living in the age of the smartphone. Me, I’m thankful for living in an...
If there’s someone in your life who still somehow disputes that “packaging is everything,” we humbly suggest that you...
Speaking as a reputed “Paper Queen” and former Aussie myself, I was naturally predisposed to adore anything called “Letterpress...
A collaboration between Pearlfisher and renowned Irish street artist James Earley, the design for Jameson’s 5th limited-edition St. Patrick’s...
Sometimes you come across a piece that simply makes you smile. Is that a big thing, you ask. These...
“Fiddle” toys such as the “Fidget Cube” are all the rage, apparently – little gadgets with buttons and switches...
We might not be as up on the latest scents as the next person but darn it we know...
Hands up those who’ve bought wine or spirits purely for the packaging? Yep, thought so. Up till now I’ve...
We find ourselves on something of a “wood grain kick” lately, fueled by the introduction of Neenah’s CLASSIC Woodgrain...
When it comes to both “getting” and appreciating great design, there are few people we hold in higher esteem...
It seems like more and more top designers are telling us that in order to compete these days you...
When you work in print for a living it is unfortunately very easy to forget what a delightfully experimental...
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