greeting cards
It’s been a decade since Emily McDowell shook up stationery with her Empathy Cards. One of the many fabulous things...
Happy National Stationery Week, all! To celebrate, I wanted to take a closer look at the ever-evolving sticker category. These...
Since our lives are still far more complicated than our phones can handle, the paper planner resurgence shows no sign of slowing. That is great news to the stationery community; meanwhile I find it endlessly interesting to see the approach each takes to staying on top of it all. Over...
Those who attended *Noted in San Francisco last week will doubtless agree with me that it was quite the whirlwind!...
For a paper nerd like me, it’s always interesting to hone in on greeting card messaging — it often illuminates the...
Part of what makes stationery so special is that it both captures a moment and endures for posterity. And, leave it to the newest generation of makers to play with that idea and explore every last artful dimension. Just witness Sandesa, which means “message” in Sanskrit. The AAPI brand was...
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...
