the paper chronicles
If I had a dollar for every time I have heard someone sound the death knoll for stationery, I could...
I am pretty excited to leave the frozen tundra that is the Midwest to head to the frozen tundra that...
In her nearly 30 years in business, Anne Taintor has been much imitated, but never truly duplicated. She had the very original idea of making collages from vintage magazine ads, injecting her pithy and often rebellious sense of humor into seemingly innocent images of 1930s, 1940s and 1950s happy housewives and...
Love may mean never having to say you’re sorry, but modern life necessitates the occasional apology. I actually find that...
The subtlety and simplicity of the Hat Wig Glove line from Oblation Paper & Press is part of what makes it so funny...
I am still a bit green around the gills, but am feeling much livelier today, thanks in part to this interview Monica Lee at Smart Creative Women posted this morning. I was thrilled to get a chance to talk up Stationery Trends — specifically our upcoming Spring issue — as...
When a collaboration unites two stellar American brands, and throws international artists into the mix, you know the result is...
The stationery industry is full of family stories, as any walk though National Stationery Show (NSS) attests. The booths are...
Years ago, I seriously considered opening a gift store, and read up on several successful shop owners. “Never listen to naysayers,” said one, and though I never opened that store, I decided there and then to do just that. Maybe that’s part of the reason why I find the story...
I have judged the LOUIEs several times now — including the most recent one, for which winners will be announced...
Every year, National Stationery Show exhibitors toil over not just the product they wholesale, but the mailers they send out...
Chris Sargiotto of Apartment 2 Cards not only creates his own greeting card line, he successfully reps — that is, wholesales — several other small greeting card lines to retail businesses within probably one of the more challenging greeting card markets: New York City. The companies Chris reps can be seen...