Those lucky attendees of the free PaperSpecs webinar “Direct Mail: Pushing the Envelope” received a copy of Sappi Fine...
Author Archive for: aaron-berman
Those inventive Beertone guys are at it again. Not content to merely offer Pantone-like guides to beer hues, they’ve...
Frankly, it never even occurred to us what the ideal creative space would look like for a design firm....
Paper companies are marvelous things, but when it comes to their websites, it can be hit or miss. This...
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) Creating high-end invitations for luxury events is like BASE...
Remember those collagen facemasks in Seoul – weren’t they a hoot? What, you’ve never been? No matter. For those...
While many turn to yoga and mediation for inner peace, we tend to find that Zen-like calm in paper....
Children’s books have changed a lot since our day, and so has their production. Frankly we wish there had...
by Sabine Lenz Editor’s note: Next week, PaperSpecs will introduce “Inside the Design Studio,” a new video feature for...
“Calendars can be dull as dirt!” Designer Kit Hinrichs did not sugar coat his feelings in our recent webinar,...
Today, CTI Paper USA launched a new Kromekote Collection of cast-coated papers for use on offset and HP Indigo presses,...
No, this has absolutely nothing at all to do with paper. But then again we don’t know of any...
As the good ship Postal Service continues its merry chug toward that iceberg we call fiscal armageddon, the USPS’s...
There aren’t a lot of people you can really laugh at without feeling thoroughly ashamed of yourself later. Which...
Today, two months after announcing its signing of an exclusive partnership deal with Gruppo Cordenons, Neenah Paper revealed the...
Don’t get us wrong; we enjoy the many swatchbooks and helpful promotions that come our way – what paper...
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. – noon Pacific) Calendars are unequaled in...
Occasionally you come across a project that is by turns beautiful and maddening, eliciting exclamations of “awesome, no way,...
That medium-size wildcat called the Lynx gets its name from the Indo-European root word for “brightness,” a nod to...
Flimsy postcards. Cracked spines on your latest brochure. You thought you were a better designer than this, yet these...
If we love paper so much, how come we encounter so many bland personal notecards? They’re nice and all,...
By Aaron Berman Relying to any degree on the U.S. Postal Service lately is a lot like trying to...
Never mind catching lightning in a bottle, how about capturing one person’s imagination in a book? And then giving...
“Unsere Heike hat ein kleines Schwesterchen bekommen…” (“Our daughter Heike now has a little sister” in German.) Yep, you...
Apparently somebody we should have heard of called Kelly Wearstler (let us guess: model? singer? reality star?) posted a...
Forget the barbecue, forget that last trip to the beach. The Postal Board of Governors is set to meet...
With today’s social media onslaught, we are simply bombarded with one gobsmacking artistic creation after the other – it...
As children, many of us dutifully bought our favorite comic books because kids can really only live vicariously. As...
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. – noon Pacific) In the free PaperSpecs...
Looking for a real design challenge? Create a cover for a mainstream novel about an amoral academic who takes...