stationery designer
It’s easy to get distracted from great design in an election year, but the summer market season is currently in...
Most stationery makers aren’t in the industry long before they hear about Stationery HQ. This San Francisco house of design...
The overlap between stationery and textiles will never not fascinate me. After all, a great image is a great image, whether it is printed on paper or fabric. And in the case of wrappr, using fabric for giftwrap is a path to both sustainability and obtaining your very own piece...
There was a time (and not very long ago) when committing to exhibit at a gift show also entailed planning...
If you haven’t yet discovered Furbish Studio — well, where have you been exactly? Carefully curated by style-maven Jamie Meares, the...
Over the years, I’ve profiled a seemingly endless array of makers who enter the stationery game from other professions. But I’m pretty sure that Dr. Daniel Molina is the first doctor that I know of to enter our domain. For the past 24 years, Daniel’s “day job” has been that...
My winter market travel days tend to be filled with rogue snowstorms and general chaos, while in summer I always...
It’s probably not so smart to write about loss while you yourself are actively grieving — but dealing with death...
While greeting cards are private communications for the most part, what is expressed within these innocuous folded sheets of paper has the power to shape our perception of the world, including and especially ourselves. So it makes perfect sense that from time to time, the Greeting Card Association (GCA) carefully...
Hand-written communications endure over time and space — but interestingly, the definition of what comprises a “handmade” card has definitely evolved...
One of the many reasons I love stationery so is all the magnificent illustration to be discovered here. And it...
In the wake of my walks through the winter markets, I have reached a conclusion: Many of us prefer plants to people. And why not? They literally bring life to any space as they clean the very air we breathe — and we measly humans have the power within us...




















