Caught Our Eye

By Aaron Berman Being a paper professional in the 21st century is like being someone who travels between two...

It’s already become nearly impossible for some of us to remember what it was like to experience and record...

It is a subject bound to arise whenever two or more creatives get together over a friendly drink, usually...

An unusual thing, advice. Seldom do we hear any tips that we haven’t thought of ourselves. Yet when people...

The next time you throw down your headphones in frustration after a two-hour struggle with your latest identity project,...

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Unemployment-check Saturday – the results are finally in from the 2012 Christmas rush, and at...

Google, the company that famously pledged not to be “evil,” apparently has taken no such vow against the nose-tweaking...

Last year was the year of creating superfluous ties between print and digital, often in the name of creating...

By Will Sherwood “I don’t feel that there are many designers in the world who are really good at...

One of the challenges of design is finding that subjective sweet spot where word and image converge without one...

Sabine Bartelsheim & Ute Brüning Have the many talented, successful and creative female graphic designers been given short shrift...

Sofie Beier Type is everywhere. Whether it’s in a book, on a billboard, in a newspaper, or on a...

Designer Founders Book Team In an effort to inspire future generations of designers to create tech start-ups with positive...

Printer’s ink runs in our veins, is mother’s milk to us, and is our heart’s libation. But even we...

When PaperSpecs called attention to the buzz around the University of California rebranding last month, little did we know...

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET (11 a.m. to noon PT) Brochures, mailers, calendars, postcards,...

There is so much great design in the course of a year, increasingly we rely on various institutions to...

There’s nothing that we like better in America than picking up an issue – any issue – and promptly...

Every week seems to either bring a new use for QR Codes, or a report trying to convince us...

LevelUp is a Photoshop plug-in that teaches you the most efficient way to use the dozens of features in...

By Michael Schwartz At a time when digital design tools and modern paper choices give you nearly limitless options...

Considering that anybody who spends a lot of time working with Pantone colors ends up trying to guess the...

Your email, photos, and even Adobe’s Creative Suite have all drifted off into the “cloud” – that magical land...

OK, here’s your chance to tell a major paper supplier how you’d put together their 2013 swatchbook. Yippee! This...

The latest Arjowiggins swatchbook – the “Creative Papers Digital Booklet” – features 11 new digital papers (when you count...

Mohawk continues to slim down its swatchbooks with the release of another six redesigned guides, following the one for...

When you have a brand as recognizable as Sony’s PlayStation, you’d think marketing would require little more than rolling...

However much designers get into the business to flex their creative muscles and as a guilt-free way to indulge...

After years of budget meltdowns and loan defaults, the U.S. Postal Service is being placed under the microscope by...

By Sabine Lenz Just before the holidays, I finally received my own copy. I leafed through the book ooohing...