It’s been a crazy old year around PaperSpecs Towers, particularly with our long-lived Paper Tips column. At some point...
Caught Our Eye
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...
This week, font-management company Extensis released an eye-opening report revealing that nearly 60% of designers have “traded fonts with...
It’s a cruel world out there, as 19-year-old English student Peter Clatworthy discovered recently when he plunked down about...
If you’re itching to gussy up the ol’ homestead for the holidays with a quick paper project, but can’t...
Pantone, that monetized esperanto of the color world, has opened the envelope, cleared its throat, and announced its color for...
OK, the last thing you feel like thinking about in the run-up to the holidays is your direct mail...
Simply tell us you’re producing a magazine by letterpress these days and you already have our attention. But tell...
Last summer, Valassis found itself the subject of a court petition over an increased discount – up to 34%...
It’s so easy to forget just how transcendent exquisite design can be, something we were reminded of when we...
In a show of international cooperation often lacking in the cinematic depictions of James Bond, an Australian printer and...
By Aaron Berman Like some of those exotic beer blends you come across while perusing your local grocery shelves,...
What the right hand giveth, the left taketh away. Look no further than news that the United States Postal...