stationery design
While it is true that new stationery brands keep our market fresh, it also remains somehow true that there is...
Trade show time is ALWAYS a crazy time — and winter trade show time during a global pandemic, well, it’s...
I love discovering new paper brands at trade shows, on Instagram … or best of all, sometimes they track me down to say hi! I also find them in Stationery Trends ads, as believe it or not, sometimes makers take out an ad without submitting editorial. And that, my friends...
I have posted a lot over the years about holiday cards from Artifact Uprising, and with good reason: Sending out their...
Well, there’s nothing quite like planning and unveiling a exciting new department, only to then upend everything up by taking...
To me, a gift is not truly a present until is wrapped enticingly. Ideally, I like any gift I give to be admired in and of itself before the recipient even wonders what’s inside. However, that doesn’t mean I don’t feel guilty once the unwrapping is done, the gift has...
During this past *Noted, I couldn’t help falling in love with the Meet The Maker videos. These short intros were...
Year in and year out, my Sugar Paper x Target Holiday collab posts get the most traction from TPN readers....
I used to say that greeting cards are the billboard of the American psyche, but lately I’ve been starting to rethink that. That billboard may well encompass stickers too these days, and why not? After all, while a card is shared with a limited audience, stickers put it all out...
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...
Recently I was describing a few stationery makers I’m rather fond of to a non-industry person. I found myself prefacing introducing each with the disclaimer that they were perhaps a bit eccentric … and then I caught myself. Because if they’re eccentric, I am too, and not just a little...
