The Five Questions
There’s a thousand stories in the big city, so the saying goes, but there are also most likely a thousand...
Claudia Smith is the Designer + Proprietress of Fig. 2 Design Studio, which swept into National Stationery Show in 2011 like...
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...
Chris Sargiotto of Apartment 2 Cards not only creates his own greeting card line, he successfully reps — that is, wholesales...
The stationery industry is full of family stories, as any walk though National Stationery Show (NSS) attests. The booths are...
I absolutely love Pinterest — in fact, I don’t allow myself to visit before noon, otherwise my daily to-do list just doesn’t get done — but it remains a bit of a mystery to me. What makes one pin get repinned thousands of times — while an equally attractive one...
I first met the very lively and super-sweet Susan Birnbaum, creative director for greeting cards at Design Design, the first time...
The Five Questions is another new department, capsule profiles of those dynamic minds that make the stationery industry so interesting....
Thankfully, serendipity (also known as old-fashioned good luck) has played a big role in my tenure at Stationery Trends. Take our spring issue last year. It’s the biggest of the year for us, and not only did that for 2013 mark our fifth birthday, we were also debuting a much-sweated-over...
Bonnie Marcus is the face and the force behind the Bonnie Marcus Collection. Her diverse range of stationery and gift...
For many a small stationery designer, getting an order from Greer CHICAGO is a major milestone on the road to...
If I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone sound the death knoll for stationery, I could definitely get a Kate Spade satchel out of it (possibly with a matching pair of wedges). For I have heard all the complaints there are to possibly make: about consumers...
