Finally, an initial public offering that isn’t just one more nail in our economic coffin! The Hamilton Wood Type...
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This week, of course, marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which naturally begs the question: How...
Keith Hefner penning a book on feminism? A Mexican drug cartel publishing one on keeping fit? Nope. Just can’t...
While one doesn’t usually look at a municipality and say “The trouble here, friends, is that you’re just not...
Maybe it’s the nearness of the holidays, maybe it’s just that PaperSpecs readers are a bunch of lushes (probably...
We’ve all been so busy trying to push our design skills, and the papers we use, to their very...
British artist Yulia Brodskaya has amassed a treasure trove of big-name clients (e.g., Neiman Marcus, Hermes, Starbucks) thanks to a...
The closing of another year is somewhat eased by the availability of the new typographic calendar created by Studio...
The design community continues to rally around relief efforts in The Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. And now, for the...
By Cyd Peroni “A lot of what I do is very intuitive. When I work on something that doesn’t...
NEWS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kevin Cantrell’s Luminares Poster Receives PaperSpecs Gallery’s Take Note Award for Quarter Three 2013....
As the people of The Philippines continue to dig themselves out from the hell left by Typhoon Haiyan, we’re...
Lately we can’t shake the feeling that Mohawk would really like to run away and do something else with...
If you are of a certain age, and let’s face it, a certain ghoulish disposition, you are probably a...
Now we’re not sure what our North American audience is supposed to do with this information exactly, but dang...
When 20% of the books you’ve designed have found themselves into MoMA’s permanent collection, people tend to jolly well...
You: Say, uh, PaperSpecs? Us : Yes, lovely reader? You: Well geez, this is a strange question… Us: Go...
This may or may not be a first for publishing, but it sure won’t be the last. We’re talking...
Must be nice to have a skill, a talent, a tiny spark of life that separates you from the...
In September, UnderConsideration sponsored a one-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s...
Produce a hardback children’s book to sell a car? Why yes, it works very well when done with a...
Convention and visitor bureaus – there’s one in every city and town across America. That’s a lot of competition...
The concept of this cross-media project can run rings around many a ho-hum holiday greeting card. The set of...
Occasionally science takes time off from measuring cow emissions to come up with information that we can actually use...
While I can’t read of word of Italian, the language this marketing collateral is written in, the concept, design...
They are fairy tale illustrations for adults; lavish, paintings of worlds we would love to visit, or glimpses of...
When consumers browse the luxury wine and spirits shelves, they’re looking for the trophy they can bring back to...
Consider the plight of today’s U.S. mail carrier. Your employer is slagged off in the media for being fiscally...
There’s an inspiring mania for trying new things that you find in national postal services that is really never...
Today, when we honor those who’ve served their country with dubious pre-Black Friday sales, Joe Sacco’s new book, “The...
