sarah schwartz
If you walked *Noted this past April or spied the Fresh Picks frontispiece in the Spring 2022 Stationery Trends, it...
Typically, a holiday finds me as far as humanly possible from work. But not this July Fourth; these days my...
This past April’s Noted@*Noted Awards were very special, since, like the Louie Awards, they were actually celebrated in person for the first time since 2019. As such, there was a lot of excitement in San Francisco — but unfortunately not all the award winners made it to the festivities! For example,...
Summer is officially on — and so is a sunny, brand-new notepad range from J. Falkner. But these aren’t just any...
Yesterday I was chatting with a maker and the subject of the perfect notebook came up. It turns out she...
Today is indeed the day June, AKA Pride Month, kicks off, but for months now, Sky of Blue Cards has been quietly working behind the scenes so you can get your brightest rainbow on. These heavy-duty, holographic stickers are just calling out for a backpack or water bottle to stick...
Now that it’s been a solid few weeks since *Noted and SF Now has come and gone, I’m trying to...
One question I get over and over at market is, “So, what trends are you’re seeing?” The answer usually is,...
I’m definitely still recovering from what was literally a 5,000-mile (round) trip, but as I suddenly realized on the incredible *Noted floor last week, there was literally nowhere else in the world I would have rather been. It was an amazing whirlwind, but my personal highlight was FINALLY announcing the...
I’ll let you in on a little industry secret: Some of the best cards out there were actually created for...
So here we are, it’s April 12, and I haven’t yet shared all the March makers, to say nothing of...
Typically when I discover a new range, it’s a North American maker who is new on the stationery scene. It’s far rarer to stumble across a fresh foreign range that’s a bit further along but still relatively new to the States. That’s definitely the case with Redback Cards, hailing from...
