We’re the first to tout the magical properties of paper: its ability to entice, seduce, and compel us to...
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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...
By Aaron Berman Every year we leap into January with a sincere determination to “get it right this time”,...
By Cyd Peroni It’s the late 1980s and English rocker Graham Nash is starting to experiment with digital photography...
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...
By Aaron Berman As we prepare ourselves for all the wonderfully intricate print projects destined to come our way...
Presumably Verso Paper Corp. didn’t get what it wanted for Christmas, instead announcing Jan. 6th that it is picking...
If you grew up in the ’70s, ’80s or ’90s, you might fondly recall a gentler time when our...
Like an intense animal-husbandry program headed by Dr. Frankenstein, efforts to marry paper and digital technology continue, ranging from...
If we’ve been featuring a greater than average number of calendars here these past couple of weeks (and we...
With programs such as Outlook and iCal keeping track of our every task, appointment and breath, we no longer...
Give designers some nice photos, decent fonts, and time enough to slap it all together, and they can usually...
The late writer Theodore Sturgeon maintained that 90% of everything is crap, and by jove he might’ve been on...
You know, Pantone became a bonafide geek subculture so gradually we only just now realized it. And just what...
You return to work reinvigorated, newly inspired to design with skill, style, and a touch of fire. And then...
With all the effort funneled into getting paper to be “more interactive” through changing color and sending SMS messages...