Oh for the good old days when the biggest worry a professional had regarding their family’s personal holiday cards...
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Throughout the hectic business year we wield paper as impersonally as any other tool in our arsenal; hazard of...
It’s a little litany that plays through our mind every time we deploy a sticky note; “Every time you...
If you’re not quite sure what to get that label-conscious person on your list, you’re sure to score some...
As the year winds down, we take stock of the leading luminaries in various fields we’ve lost in 2013....
It’s been a crazy old year around PaperSpecs Towers, particularly with our long-lived Paper Tips column. At some point...
Coming-of-age ceremonies are special events in many cultures. The Jewish Bat Mitzvah invitation for this young woman combines tradition...
If you steer toward this design thinking, you’ll sail waters that are friendly and professional, unassuming and arresting, entertaining...
It’s a rare treat to see a series of four consecutive annual corporate invitations all at once like this....
The mountainous Colorado countryside filled with lavender, rosemary and sage. The elegant textures, surfaces and architecture of a historic...
By signing the Yosemite Grant Act of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln set aside the scenic natural areas of Mariposa...
What do you get when you cross a designer with a love of typography and a passion for crafts?...
The Japanese squeeze an awful lot out of their comics, or “manga”. There’s action manga for boys, romance manga...
We know we must be missing something…I mean we do occasionally miss something, especially this close to the holidays....
It’s a funny thing. When Newsweek stopped publishing its print edition this time last year, the news barely even...
Getting your static direct-mail piece to stand out in an animated world has always been a challenge, which is...
Better, brighter and easier on the environment – that pretty much sums up today’s announcement from FutureMark Paper Group...
As business models go, it was never a very sustainable one. Still, after nearly 150 years in operation, it...
Our PaperSpecs PRO members are the best. We were still showing our type drawer full of chocolate letters around...
It’s the last days of 2013, which means we’re being overwhelmed by a sea of calendars for the new...
Perhaps as our own postal service quietly collapses into a black hole of unrealistic expectations, we might look beyond...
PR-nightmare-in-a-box Wal-Mart has managed to tick off yet another demographic recently – this time street artists. Not content to...
Whether it’s a bad habit or a symptom of some low-level OCD, I can’t help it – I’ve always...
Some of the best design out there slips quietly beneath the radar; you won’t find it winning awards or...
The new year is bringing big changes to New Leaf Paper’s Reincarnation line of super-eco-friendly sheets. Already leading the...
It’s that time of year again: the time when chocolate seems to materialize on desks out of thin air...
By Aaron Berman We at PaperSpecs are lifelong connoisseurs of books, and we’ve seen some humdingers. But I think...
It is the best of times and it is the worst of times to be a lover of art...
If you are of a certain age (and sadly, we all are “of a certain age”), you might remember...
You’ve done it before and chances are you’ll do it again. You’ve spotted the perfect color for a project...
