It’s been a long, punishing week. You’ve gone over and over a design in preparation for a client meeting....
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“Can we do a blind emboss on these letterpress cards?” “No ink when blind printing?” “How is this different...
Sustainability. It’s an important issue in the world of paper, but it isn’t the sexiest topic imaginable. Once you...
(Note: This is NOT one of those @#!! April Fool’s jokes, thank heavens.) Playing with your food is universally...
We’re sure someone will pull us up about this later, but for the moment we can’t remember the last...
You put a lot of pride into your business cards, especially if you’re a designer. It’s an extension of...
This month, Great Britain’s Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, paid a visit to the offices of Mother, a...
Logos are everywhere, and for those who toil in the mines of design, they are the ideal – a...
Your future lies in the clouds, people. More specifically, Adobe’s Creative Cloud system. Though a move rumored to be...
It might be a heresy, but the truth is that a good portion of design rarely rises beyond the...
Sure, we like the little subtleties we find in business-card design. We’ve been known to stare longingly at a...
With the Internet pumping millions of pieces of creativity into our homes and offices each year, some creatives have...
Apparently will-work-for-fonts designers aren’t our only competition anymore. Recently, the public sector has turned to another source for the...
I was baffled. And believe me, it takes quite a bit to render me speechless. I pulled the mail...
By Matthew Parker I love exploring unusual places when I go on holiday. The well-known tourist sites are very...
Quite frankly we weren’t sure what to expect when we opened this package from Color-Logic. “Special Effects for Print”...
Don’t get us wrong. We at PaperSpecs have the odd feline darting about our heels and generally making us...
Will they or won’t they? No, this is not about the latest improbable celebrity pairing, but the Post Office’s...
Here’s one for all you romantics out there. To celebrate their first anniversary, Brooklyn’s Alex Green took wife Stefanie...
It really is amazing what you can get away with in the name of charity, especially when you have...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) We simply can’t get enough of letterpress. And neither...
You’ve got to love creatives. Ask members of any other profession to drop what they’re doing to work on...
You never really realize how few risks organizations take in design until you see one that pushes the envelope...
If everything is a nail to the person with a hammer, then everything is a button for the Internet...
By Kristen Fischer While many readers have been successfully running their own design business for years, others are still...
We all respect the lengths that mills go to on our behalf to keep paper production sustainable, but others...
Kristen Fischer Too many creative professionals focus too much on their artistic abilities and too little on their business...
Jessica C. White Jessica White, the co-founder of Ladies of Letterpress, uses her expertise as owner of Heroes &...
Crowd-funding websites such as Kickstarter have been a godsend to artists everywhere, launching projects that otherwise wouldn’t get the...
We are indebted to reader Roger Smolski for sending us the following in response to Sabine’s recent PaperSpecs Pro...