Whenever life gets you down, just remember that somewhere out there a little boy is learning how to read....
Publications
Question: When did stickers stop being fun? Answer: They didn’t, we just stopped using them for fun things. This...
As hot as virtual reality technology is at the moment, nothing transports ME to another world quite like the...
You can’t flip a circle of pizza dough these days without hitting someone or something related to cooking: cooking...
When I was growing up I remember coffee table books being just that – enormous tomes nearly as large...
Interactivity is easily one of the biggest trends of the year when it comes to print, and something intriguingly...
Choosing the right binding option doesn’t just allow you to keep a bunch of pages together, it enables you...
Once upon a time there was a giraffe called Georgia, a printer who believed in his daughter’s gift,...
If you spent any time in American libraries growing up you probably remember a wide variety of posters...
Before our age of 24/7 food shows, cooking used to be such a personal affair. It’s a skill...
There is something very wrong with David Plunkert…and thank heaven for that. The artist’s style – think Monty...
If you were to dream up a patron saint for letterpress experimenters, you could do a lot worse...
Jim Bachor’s book Potholes is a 7-color, perfect-bound struggle between permanence and the ephemeral. With eye-popping color achieved through...
Hats off to UnderConsideration for calling our attention to this fun little number just perfect for the lead-up to...
What’s the best way to promote a stencil-like typeface? With a stencil-like specimen book, naturally! Foundry Nootype‘s book devoted...
In a marketplace filled to bursting with cheap come-ons for this energy drink and that automobile, there are still...
Between a handful of dedicated publishers and relatively inexpensive printing costs overseas, it feels like we are enjoying a...
Over the years we’ve covered a wide range of hard-to-find projects on PaperSpecs; celebrity invitations, super-expensive wines and spirit...
“At ‘Stolen,’ we love the tangible and the tactile,” declares designer Lucy Guernier’s website, and that passion for what can...
At the recent Adobe MAX event, our first indication that designer Aaron Draplin was in the room wasn’t his trademark...
Marriage is a tricky arrangement to pull off, but when it works, boy, it works. No, we’re not rabbiting...
A bit late to say it, perhaps, but I think I want to be Kelli Anderson when I grow...
Each month for Wayward Arts magazine, a different award winning Canadian design studio is given the finest paper and...
From blogs, tweets and YouTube videos to the current “maker” movement, the influence of the humble zine is everywhere. (Here’s...
I’m driven by the energy of New York City, the everyday and the juxtaposition of grit and grandiose beauty....
The length of the production run of the ACC Emerging Artists book was low, but the sophistication of the...
Making a dummy is key to success for any book. – Bill Kennedy, AMP Printing It always seems...
The global nature of World Relief’s work is expressed through a ‘travel journal’ concept, combined with the hand-crafted look...
Although letterpress is a historic printing method, it’s not very common to use this technique for printing magazine covers....
One of the interesting production aspects of the book was that the text block was designed smaller (in height)...
