Design
Subscription boxes have gone from (briefly) being America’s ultimate Pet Rock to yet another gift you can purchase from the...
Well the judges have judged, and the votes have been tabulated, so it my distinct pleasure and honor to share...
A few years back, I made the difficult decision to stop generating trend reports for Gift Shop Plus and delve deeper into stationery. I have absolutely no regrets to officially committing to be an even bigger paper nerd than before. Meanwhile, Stationery Trends continues to cover the gift and home...
Lately I’ve been comparing the current stationery market to the classic rock masterpieces that filled the FM airwaves during the...
I almost hate to say it, but I was working from home WAY before it was cool. I was fortunate...
I just got back from Atlanta Market, and but even before I went I was hearing that weddings are back, and in a big way — and really, that makes perfect sense after our previous prolonged era of pandemic postponement. Not only are weddings back, but more and more brides...
Yes, the day is here — the 2023 edition of the über-competitive greeting card design competition is open for business. It is...
I received an email last week inquiring if trade shows are “over.” While I don’t have the authority to provide...
I try not to get too attached to any one thing in this lifetime, but for me, getting any one thing done requires one humble but mighty tool: a handwritten list. Every morning, the first thing I do is take a few minutes to put that day’s to-dos together, trying...
We’re just going into production with the winter issue of Stationery Trends, and I realized as I was reviewing copy...
Last week this paper nerd had the distinct pleasure of road tripping to visit two of my favorite Detroit area...
If you can’t already tell, I found my Summer New York market experience to be more than a little magical. Thus I’m sad to reach the end of my Shoppe Object coverage. Fear not, however, there was no shortage of glorious discoveries as this long post attests! Inklings Paperie This...
