Apparently will-work-for-fonts designers aren’t our only competition anymore. Recently, the public sector has turned to another source for the...
Caught Our Eye
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...
Jim Williams Want your reports and other documents to look as good – and as readable – as possible?...
A type of genius insanity has been slowly sweeping through the offices of advertising giant Ogilvy around the world....
Sounding very much like the cat that got the cream, CTI Paper USA revealed last week that it has...
The days of the blocky QR code seem to be numbered. Last month we told you about the Israeli...
It’s been a helluva few months for the folks at Livestrong. Ever since January, when founder Lance Armstrong admitted...
Anybody can predict the trends of the present year, or even the next. AIGA, however, has polished up the...
By Aaron Berman “I draw pictures all day.” It’s a slogan that adorns T-shirts, buttons and other items designers...
After 34 years of focusing on brisk runs and feel-the-burn ab crunches, Self magazine is rebranding itself as a...
A tip of the PaperSpecs cap to David Brier for his submission in our “God Made a Designer...
Inspired by the Dodge Ram “God Made a Farmer” commercial that ran during the recent Super Bowl, Dallas...
Having a devil of a time finding the perfect balance between your print creations and other media that you...
Over the last year or so, various companies have tried to make print products interact with tablet computers, smartphones...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) Print and social media? Print and mobile apps? Print...