True progress may occur only at the macro level, but it begins on the micro level. Just ask Sadie Teper, founder of the feminist stationery and gift brand Twentysome Design. Her hand-lettered range draws big laughs as it voices unspoken thoughts — just ask her many craft fair patrons, or the stores across the country that stock her.
But beneath the humor, the message is always a positive, inclusive one, which is that much more powerful held in your hands. Thus one card reads, “I love watching you rise/Congrats on your promotion”; one of my favorite Twentysome birthday offerings reminds the recipient that “age is beauty.” Vinyl stickers meanwhile share modern dictums like “love yourself first,” “worthy + deserving” and “angry women will change the world.”
Now the self-confessed plant whore, also recently named a Stationery Trends Designer to Watch in 2023, drops in The Paper Fold to spill on her big-picture goals, varied inspirations, upcoming collaborations, to say nothing of how her magnificent, distinctive hand-lettering — AKA Bad Bitch — evolved.
