Yes, the saturated colors drew my eye at first. But it’s the feel and sound of the paper...
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It was a fabulous trip. Shannon, our resident sales director, and her family enjoyed all the fabulous museums in...
As we spend most of our professional lives wrestling creative pieces from the jaws of embarrassingly meagre budgets, it...
Arjowiggins – the masters of paper that seems like much more than paper – have added their potato-based Curious...
To get your mind and body prepared for the approaching weekend, we share with you the Fold-out Yoga Card,...
Paper can educate, paper can inspire, and with a little help from technology, paper can also save one, 10,...
If print is as dead as the digital medium keeps on insisting it is, Pop Chart Lab didn’t get...
Like Diogenes searching for “one honest man,” we continue our quest for “one decent QR code use” – and honestly,...
For those of a certain age (or vintage, if you prefer), The Guinness Book of World Records evokes images...
Just six months old, The Guest House Vienna takes theme and appearance very seriously, juxtaposing clean design with kitschy...
Fleece as lifestyle. Fleece as the mark of excellence. Nike Sportswear and MET Fine Printers have once again...
By John Prothero No matter how much we think we know about the color proof printing process, it’s always...
Did you realize that the brightness of your paper can actually sabotage your design? Still believe that the brighter...
Some design firms talk a good game about “thinking outside the box,” but French studio Murmure seems incapable of...
If you want to design a business card that people will actually hold on to for years to come,...
An obnoxious soundtrack is the backdrop to a video of these visually stunning thermo-sensitive cards in action. Developed by France’s...
Like black-and-white photography, there’s something about black-and-white design that really makes you concentrate on the composition of a piece....
Doodling is a favorite (and yes, Mom, productive) creative outlet. It allows my mind to wander into that discovery...
When her client, Event Crashers, needed a holiday card, Valerie Wilson came up with a headline that played off...
Let’s be honest – whatever design a company comes up with for a DNA-testing kit is probably going to...
Usually business cards tell you three things: A person’s name, how to get in touch with them, and whether...
For some this will be heaven on earth; for others, something akin to those dreams you have of being...
Despite the near limitless number of colors, printing techniques and papers we have access to today, often it is...
While you contemplate the various chocolate bunnies, mini-eggs and other post-Easter delicacies (and how best to keep the dog...
Everyone’s favorite place to crash is home of course! Whether it’s a Victorian row house in the city,...
The designer in me pays close attention when someone calls something perfect. But there’s no such animal people …...
By Christopher Simmons The recent PaperSpecs/VMA Storyboard webinar À La Carte – Cohesive Brands Across All Media was one...
Frankly we’re so in love with this card design that we’re not sure if knowing what inspired it detracts...
This morning’s Paper Zen shows us how all of those Moleskine notebooks are personalized for conferences and other events....
Get your weekend off to an early start with a Jack Daniel’s studio visit to a Knoxville letterpress company,...