stationery design
So, it’s been quite a week! I was finishing up judging the 194 Noted @ *Noted entries Monday morning — following...
In more “normal” years, this would be the season for my in-box to be filled with fantastic new makers. For...
Often the fastest way to grow a maker’s business is by adding a new category — and if your game is stationery, giftwrap may be your best bet! Erin Sarpa of StationeryHQ.com tells me that their gift wrap sheets are their fastest growing product, as many of her clients have found...
As of Monday, February 15, submissions for the Noted @ *Noted Product Awards are open, and I really hope every...
There’s nothing like a fresh new brand landing in your in-box to perk you up. And in the case of...
I’m so grateful I visited Shoppe Object last February. Since that and NY NOW were the only trade shows I attended this (almost finished) year, I’ve reviewed the snapshots I took at both much, much more than I usually would — and in some ways they seem like surreal glimpses into...
If you are like me on this Black Friday of 2020, you woke up to a dizzying in-box full of...
Along with the rest of us, last spring found luxury shoe designer Sarah Flint quarantining at home in Buzzards Bay,...
Snail mail and greeting cards have assumed a renewed importance in American life that has been absent for decades upon decades. Just ask Paper Source, whose CEO Winnie Park told The Chicago Tribune last week that online greeting card sales have increased tenfold compared with the same time period last...
Boxed sets have had an interesting trajectory these past several years. Dyed-in-the-wool letter-writers have always loved them. They’ve multi-functional and...
I compiled a lot of office coverage for the upcoming fall issue of Stationery Trends, and in doing so I...
So, originally I had planned a Thinking of You Week post for today. I already had it half-way written in the back of my head. I was going to start by saying how great it would be if over the next several days, every last person feeling isolated would receive...




















