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Year in and year out, my Sugar Paper x Target Holiday collab posts get the most traction from TPN readers....
I write almost endlessly about new makers entering the stationery community — and I admire the vim & verve of every...
This may not be a great time to be alive, but it is always great to see how makers are attempting to gently guide us through these challenging days with our sanity and senses intact. Take the new Calendar of Good from Free Period Press. Guided by the notion that...
Recently I was describing a few stationery makers I’m rather fond of to a non-industry person. I found myself prefacing...
Serendipity has always been one of my favorite words. After all, what’s not to like? It is the type of...
One thing that became crystal clear to me while at NY NOW is that there is no one way of operating your stationery business these days. Some makers have wholesale and retail operations, while others have wholesale and online operations and still others are strictly wholesale. Meanwhile, some retailers maintain...
Stationery is full of great maker stories, but sit back and get comfortable, because that of Tiny and Snail is...
Back at the turn of this century, houses of letterpress completely dominated the entire market. Inspired by Martha Stewart, would-be...
Pre-COVID, my last work trip, in February 2020, was judging the 31st Annual LOUIE Awards in Washington, D.C. Semi-post-COVID, my first work event, in March 2021, was judging the 32nd Annual LOUIE Awards. Instead of taking a plane, I took the highway to American Greetings, the site of the Ohio...
If you sell cards and have not checked out *Noted, you are missing out — and there is still time to...
Longtime Paper Nerd readers know that I have a special spot in my heart dedicated to British stationery design. Maybe...
I’ve read a lot about guns and gun violence this week, a lot of words that were unfortunately necessary to both read and write. Like nearly everyone, I have a lot of thoughts concerning gun control (which I’ve lately begun referring to as “massacre control”), especially since my family lost...
