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Caught Our Eye
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You love, love, love letterpress as the attendance during a classic PaperSpecs’ webinar proved. Guest speakers Judith Berliner, founder...
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Today it seems as though whatever you create must somehow be interactive in order to capture attention – we...
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It’s like hearing that two gorgeous friends from high school have finally tied the knot after all these years…if those...
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Nothing quite compares to print when it comes to mementoes of our travels, be they of places we are...
By Aaron Berman Rose Gonnella is a consummate professional. If you happen
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As PaperSpecs doyenne Sabine Lenz often reminds us, touch can be as vital to a printed piece as look, especially...
Packaging has become more than a fancy way to keep products safe from the knocks and stumbles of life. In...
When you’re trying to market an executive jet to the world’s richest high-flyers, simply popping another slick brochure into...
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We’re dubbing this week’s Cool Designs of the Week “Fire Hose of Crazy” because that’s what you’re getting: three projects...
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The term “mixed bag” has been dragged through the mud over the years, as in “the party guests were...
We laughed, we cried – well mostly we just stared in giddy fascination during our most recent free webinar,...
American society has a long and storied history of glamorizing the print professions, from “The Front Page” to “Mad Men,” yet...
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It seems many of you have been luring your local Verso reps into good-natured conversations about the weather and “Game of...
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