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Happy ’26, folks! Much of our community is prepping for or already experiencing the winter markets, but regardless of your...
Paper Nerd readers know that nothing tickles my fancy like discovering a fresh new brand at Market — and then...
Before I started working my first annual Stationery Trends gift guide last summer, my colleague Carly McFadden pointed out that technically, every issue of Stationery Trends and Gift Shop Plus (and really, any gift trade) is already a gift guide. Thus, my first official Paper Nerd Gift Guide needed boundaries....
Well nerds, I was planning to release the First annual Paper Nerd Gift Guide today, but life intervened in the...
Part of the magic of stationery is its very accessibility and simplicity. Anyone can modify it to suit a larger...
There was a time (and not very long ago) when committing to exhibit at a gift show also entailed planning a special event for buyers and attendees. Not only would these mini-fêtes offer the exhibitor precious face time with press, buyers, key accounts, and whoever happened to be strolling by...
My winter market travel days tend to be filled with rogue snowstorms and general chaos, while in summer I always...
If you grew up in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, you probably remember Acrylic Clips. And no, I don’t mean...
It’s been a decade since Emily McDowell shook up stationery with her Empathy Cards. One of the many fabulous things to come from their incarnation is the idea that a greeting card can be a harbinger of healing. The missive in question does more than simply stand in for a...
If you are like me and stop whatever you are doing to hungrily inhale the latest Shoppe Object marketing email...
Thanks to everyone who reached out to me after I posted part #1 – I’m so thrilled to have so many...
Until last week, I didn’t know what the Sad Girls Bar was — but that all changed when an embargoed email from stationery’s own avante-garde dynamo, Victoria Venturi of Paper Epiphanies, hit my inbox . “We are excited to announce that our first crossover collection derived from NFTs — Sad Girls...
