Author Archive for: aaron-berman

Following the Great Depression, the U.S. Works Progress Administration’s “See America” campaign threw a few bucks artists’ way to...

When your career revolves around various uses of paper, trying to be environmentally responsible is always a tricky business....

It’s been a hell of a couple of years for the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, which is still...

Ah, the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. That’s the event that brought us the first major exhibition of AC...

Last spring, at the height of customer outrage over Adobe’s Creative Cloud coup, users were so offended that some...

In a cheeky take on the Starbucks Rewards Card, a Washington DC coffee shop has created the Disloyalty Card,...

It was only a matter of time, but it still feels a little shocking – like seeing your first...

Though our mind has quickly flown to making out our shopping list the half a dozen times we’ve attempted...

We like to think we bring many positive qualities to this world. Still, when it comes to keeping up...

Picture a zoo devoid of walls between the predators and the prey and you’ll have a pretty good handle...

We’re the first to tout the magical properties of paper: its ability to entice, seduce, and compel us to...

Have a job that regularly takes you to Europe? Have an adventurous palate? Then pull up a plush red...

Though an impromptu visit to your local Barnes & Noble will prove that the print magazine is alive and...

Yes, it pays to be a PaperSpecs PRO member. For about what you spend on coffee each month (actually,...

More fools us. It seems we’ve spent the last 10 years (good heavens, has it been THAT long?) worrying...

Typical. Just as the U.S. Postal Service embraces QR codes, the rest of the world seems poised to ditch...

Comedians get it all the time – a person gives them an offended look upon learning their profession, followed...

The Guardian, the British newspaper that gave former NSA contractor Edward Snowden enough rope to hang his ex-employer for...

We haven’t owned a television in years, and have acquired the bad habit of staring right through people who...

Around our house we’ve managed to avoid some of the more traditional addictions, but there’s one monkey yours truly...

We love the USPS as we would a sibling caught in an abusive relationship. It keeps coming up with...

After the Revolution (don’t worry – we’re going to wait it out in Barbados), you will likely find the...

Mohawk continues to have a good quarterly tidy around the office, with those willing to part with $79.99 annually...

In a bid to get designers to think “green in 2014”, Appleton Coated is now offering its Utopia Two:...

It feels like we spent much of 2013 helping people better understand that 97% of the stories they read...

Call us morbid but we know just how we’re going to leave this world – we’ve imagined the scene...

The ink was barely dry on Cenveo’s $25 million acquisition of bankrupt National Envelope in September 2013 before Mohawk...