If you work in the print design field, you’ve heard of the French Paper Company. Its one of the few independent American paper mills left and they also have a fabulous marketing team that has wisely teamed French up with designers like Charles S. Anderson to create some great packaging and products. One of those…
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Finding the best Read Later Option
After a post several weeks ago asking all you fine readers about the best options for reading news and saving articles, I narrowed down the list for the “read later” options to three of the most popular options: Instapaper Readability Pocket Each offers bookmarklets or plug-ins for popular browsers, each offers apps for iPhone, iPad…
Vintage office goodies from Life Japanese Stationery
For someone who loves the aesthetics and apparatus of the vintage office, the Life Japanese Stationery products will surely please. Life uses the same featherlight paper stock for their Airmail stationery that they used in 1946 when they opened their doors. They even have matching Airmail envelopes. Airmail paper pad is $12.95 AUD for 50…
Daycraft Folding Tray
This cool little leatherette tray from Daycraft in Hong Kong is a deep teal blue on one side and a bright orange on the other. It ships flat and has snaps on the corner to fold up into a sort of origami bowl. Snap from one side and the points face into the shallow bowl,…
Ink Drop Reveal for October 2012
I’m so tickled with this month’s Goulet Pens Ink Drop ink sample subscription that I couldn’t wait to share. The colors this month are from one ink manufacturer called Scribal Work Shop and the series is called Cryptid. All the colors are inspired by mythical creatures. What could be more perfect for October? I filled…
Better Work Enviroment? Add a Plant or 11.
According to Gardenista, the best way to improve your work environment is to add some real live greenery in the form of a plant. Acutally, eleven plants. According to a study by NASA plants help to break down the stale, carbon dioxide-laden air and filter out harmful organic compounds but you’ll need eleven plants for…
Nicely Noted Notecard Subscriptions
Last week, I listed several of the paper-related subscription services. I failed to mention Nicely Noted which is a letterpress notecard subscription service. Once a month a kit arrives with three cherry-picked letterpress notecards and postage (current USPS stamps). You can purchase a monthly subscription for $18 or select a gift subscription of 2-, 3-,…