Caught Our Eye

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,...

Never mind catching lightning in a bottle, how about capturing one person’s imagination in a book? And then giving...

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...

Despite a reasonable number of wine aficionados out there, most wine and spirit buyers wouldn’t know a claret from...

An embarrassing cracked spine on the brochure. A disappointingly flimsy postcard. The mottled solid color on the cover. All...

In the old days, everybody drooled over their copy of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog, and that company...

Good design has the power to please, to encourage, to inspire, but the ends that it serves are more...

Nope, we’re not gonna do it. We know we’ve had a go at “job to the lowest bidder” sites,...

Despite the growth of digital marketing, consumers still value the experience of paging through traditional paper catalogs. Unfortunately, few...

When you think “magazine redesign,” the emphasis is usually on layout changes and the use of images. Yet with...

The lengths some people will go to publicize the power of direct marketing. Or to get a free Moleskine....

We’re like a kid on Christmas whenever we discover someone really breaking away from the pack with their identity...

It’s always nice to take a break from our brainstorming to see what other creatives find inspiring. In the...

Letterpress it; emboss/deboss it; flock, fold and FedEx  it – there seems no end to the number of ways...

By Jamie Wieck Editor’s note: It feels like much of our lives are spent looking for that little “Instruction...

You don’t have to work too hard to convince the PaperSpecs team that paper is far more than a...

Creatives revel in their innate wackiness and, given a reasonable amount of success, will invariably turn that wackiness loose...

I know, that question takes you right back to high school. (“Oh for corn’s sakes, go ask him/her yourself,”...

Resolute Forest Products’ Align papers are well-known for using up to 50% less wood fiber – and boasting a...