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Currently in its 16th season, Shark Tank is an American reality show institution. According to USTVDB, it’s the 10th most...
This past April’s Noted@*Noted Awards were very special, since, like the Louie Awards, they were actually celebrated in person for...
My winter market travel days tend to be filled with rogue snowstorms and general chaos, while in summer I always seem to miss some big family event by attending one. Thus I truly, genuinely adore that the prime time for stationery shopping has traditionally been spring. There’s no better time...
There have been so many amazing stationery-themed initiatives born in the past several weeks, which would be fantastic news, except...
I always feel like once May arrives, National Stationery Show is really upon us. Well, it’s May 2, and have...
Over the years I have written a lot about Artifact Uprising, and with very good reason. With its focus on elevated design and high quality, sustainable materials, every last custom card, photo book and gift that this Denver house of design produces honors its most important subjects — namely, you, me,...
Hopefully by now most of you have heard of 18 Million Thanks, a very passionate passion project started by Ryan and...
In 1911, Leon Leonwood Bean returned from a hunting trip with freezing feet — and the kernel of an idea that...
When a small-ish stationery maker collaborates with an enormous, legendary retail brand, that’s cause for a paper nerd celebration — but in this case, I’m officially in full swoon mode! This week, 2021Co. announced an exclusive and ongoing collection of elevated paper goods with lifestyle brand Tommy Bahama — and unsurprisingly,...
I write almost endlessly about new makers entering the stationery community — and I admire the vim & verve of every...
If you are like me on this Black Friday of 2020, you woke up to a dizzying in-box full of...
One of the my favorite things about covering stationery is that every day is truly new. One week I will be at a market geeking out on cutting-edge card design, the next I’ll be cooling my heels on a Zoom call for the Greeting Card Association’s Public Affairs Committee, hearing...
