I don’t know about you, but marketing materials and packaging that artfully harmonize cool design with the perfect paper...
Paper Inspiration
How do you know when you’ve designed the perfect packaging? When your recipients can’t bring themselves to open it...
In the finest traditions of prohibition-era speakeasies and today’s oh-so-trendy watering holes, the labeling on Hidden Curiosities gin is...
When you rescue a beer recipe from the brink of extinction, not just any label design for the bottle...
Nothing gets a party started faster than a well-stocked bar and some great tunes, making Bacardi’s “Real Music Speaker”...
Once upon a time there was a giraffe called Georgia, a printer who believed in his daughter’s gift, and...
If you spent any time in American libraries growing up you probably remember a wide variety of posters urging...
Sure we all love parties, but ask yourself this: How would you express a party’s spontaneity and energy visually?...
Before our age of 24/7 food shows, cooking used to be such a personal affair. It’s a skill you’d...
What style hangtag will the well-dressed man be wearing next year? It’s the question that naturally jumps to mind...
Simply put, “from darkness into light” is the philosophy behind Ellie Cashman’s hauntingly beautiful floral wallpapers, cushions, fabrics and...
For the uninitiated, opera might seem a stale, stodgy affair better suited to some bygone era. But those who...
If you were to dream up a patron saint for letterpress experimenters, you could do a lot worse than...
Don’t get me wrong, I love San Francisco. (I’m a designer; it’s in our genes.) But there ARE times...
I don’t know what students usually receive these days from the colleges and universities that accept them – a...
This packaging for La Mer lotion is definitely a contagious design. If you have read Jonah Berger’s bestselling book...
Designing gifts for your clients is a unique opportunity to demonstrate the full range of your studio’s creativity –...
If you had to distill the essence of your company into artwork that could fit on a single dollar...
After spending a good two months putting together the next issue of PaperSpecs Magazine dedicated to embossing, I thought...
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...
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...
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...
Sometimes when I see an artist’s humdrum business card I’m reminded of the off-duty comedian’s reply to someone he’s...
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...
