The Five Questions
The Five Questions is another new department, capsule profiles of those dynamic minds that make the stationery industry so interesting....
There’s a thousand stories in the big city, so the saying goes, but there are also most likely a thousand...
Bonnie Marcus is the face and the force behind the Bonnie Marcus Collection. Her diverse range of stationery and gift products fill the shelves of venues from exclusive boutiques to, well, Target, but to me, she will always be just Bonnie, someone I feel I’ve known forever and a dear...
To be or not to be? So goes the timeless Shakespeare question, but for many of us, the real and...
Thankfully, serendipity (also known as old-fashioned good luck) has played a big role in my tenure at Stationery Trends. Take...
The incredible invitations and ephemera created by Mr. Boddington’s Studio don’t look like those from any other company, and the firm is rather like none other, too, in that no one has actually met its mysterious namesake. If you call and ask to be put through to Mr. Boddington, you...
I absolutely love Pinterest — in fact, I don’t allow myself to visit before noon, otherwise my daily to-do list...
If I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone sound the death knoll for stationery, I could...
Claudia Smith is the Designer + Proprietress of Fig. 2 Design Studio, which swept into National Stationery Show in 2011 like a small, rather chic tornado — setting the industry on edge, and she really hasn’t really slowed down since. The posh house offers both ready-to-wear pieces like notecards and gift...
The stationery industry is full of family stories, as any walk though National Stationery Show (NSS) attests. The booths are...
Years ago, I seriously considered opening a gift store, and read up on several successful shop owners. “Never listen to...
Chris Sargiotto of Apartment 2 Cards not only creates his own greeting card line, he successfully reps — that is, wholesales — several other small greeting card lines to retail businesses within probably one of the more challenging greeting card markets: New York City. The companies Chris reps can be seen...