Caught Our Eye

By Deborah Corn In courtroom dramas we are often reminded to never ask a question we don’t already know...

No sooner have you gotten back into the swing of things than you find yourself with THAT feeling: you...

Debbie Millman Would you like to take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living...

Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger Internationally renowned graphic designer Erik Spiekermann explains in everyday terms what typography is and...

Steven Heller and Louise Fill Seen in everything from wedding invitations and birth announcements to IOUs, menus and diplomas,...

Editors of Phaidon Five hundred graphic designs created since the advent of mechanical reproduction are showcased in this archive...

Steven Bateman & Angus Hyland This book features over 1,300 symbols, organized into groups and sub-groups according to their...

Ron van der Vlugt Did you know? Apple’s first logo was a complex picture, a tribute to Isaac Newton...

Penny Fowler Frank Lloyd Wright’s graphic work is often overlooked when discussing the contributions of this seminal architect. His...

Mia Fineman The desire and determination to modify the camera image are as old as photography itself. Nearly every...

David Airey “Logo Design Love” is a guide for designers (and clients) who want to understand what creating a...

Kiki Eldridge Brochure design is a perennial in the world of marketing and graphic design, yet it can be...

Before we fill out our own paper wish list for Santa, everyone here at PaperSpecs would like to take...

Though it’s nice to collect swatchbooks and mull over different paper options, when it comes to sending out an...

Direct marketing has a long history of clever promotions, but some landmark of gleeful whimsy was reached by Australia’s...

Creatives are the nosey type by nature, certainly anxious to have a peek at what’s in your Moleskine. Fortunately...

Where oh where would we be without stock images? Can you imagine having to turn around every project you...

At a time when it isn’t just petrulli-tinged peace-and-love types carrying canvas bags to the corner store anymore, the...

It’s an office tradition as old as pretending not to hear the marital phone fight in the next cubicle...

What a long, crazy year of Paper Tips it’s been. Like the Roman god Janus, we seemed to be...

QR Codes continue to be this year’s biggest story, especially now that we’re starting to get some numbers to...

Just when you think whimsy has all but disappeared from the paper realm, along comes something like “Smartbook”. Created...

For those in the biz, Pantone is more than an efficient system for not embarrassing yourself too badly on...

As 2013 draws near, it’s time to take a look at what worked this year and what didn’t. What...

If somebody backed their car over a product you made, you’d probably be mildly peeved at the very least....

There’s something uniquely freeing about working with paper to create something one of a kind. Increasingly, it seems that...

By Will Sherwood “If I feel like I’m in my comfort zone, then I know I’m not working hard...

Whatever you’ve heard to the contrary, catalogs are far from dead. They’re not. (We heard that – they’re not!)...

For 2013, Kallima Paper is rolling out its best calendar yet. This year’s edition is inspired by a compelling...

Throwing nearly 145 years of hodge-podge branding out the window, the University of California recently launched a sleek new...