stationery design
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...
Lately I’ve been comparing the current stationery market to the classic rock masterpieces that filled the FM airwaves during the early 1970s. Back then, singer-songwriters from Neil Young to Joni Mitchell to James Taylor created auditory universes that were certainly influenced by each other, but remained completely distinctive in and...
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,...
Yes, the day is here — the 2023 edition of the über-competitive greeting card design competition is open for business. It is an enormous honor for me to help oversee this for the fourth year running for the Greeting Card Association, but this is only the second year we are able to...
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...
We’re just going into production with the winter issue of Stationery Trends, and I realized as I was reviewing copy that with this issue, I’m pretty much retracing my footsteps through NY NOW and Shoppe Object. I can’t wait for all the exquisite discoveries filling that issue — including several...
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....
There is something a bit magical about first translating a time of year into stationery, and then packing it all up beautifully to arrive on your doorstep. And when the time of year in question is Fall and the maker is Sky of Blue Cards, you know it’s going to...
