December 2024

When you’re a high-powered law firm like Kasowitz Benson Torres, representing everyone from Google to Ford Motor Company, even your cocktail reception invitations need to convey the same sense of dignity, elegance and attention to detail that your legal practice does. Designed and produced by our good friends at DataGraphic [projects / website], this invitation […]

For printing companies, client gifts are a wonderful way to not only remind customers of their capabilities, but also to inspire them creatively, too. For several years now, our friends at Metropolitan Fine Printers (MET) [projects / website] have been producing simple-but-elegant packaging for home-grown culinary products that emphasize the old-world standards of quality the company […]

If you can imagine it, great printers today have the experience and technology to bring your vision to life. Yet communicating this fact to designers has often been challenging for print companies, which have traditionally tried to impress you and me with equipment specs rather than “speaking our language” – namely beautiful design. That’s not […]

You and I know that one of the easiest ways to transform a good design into a great one is by adding the shimmer and shine of foil, and the finger-pleasing sensuality of embossing. Yet how do you do this on your short print run projects? Simple, say the makers of these beautiful labels: You […]

When your luxury residential building – featuring penthouses just shy of $6 million – offers sweeping views of San Francisco’s exclusive Nob Hill neighborhood, you need to provide potential residents with something a little more enticing than a brochure. Something that feels as substantial as the 8-story, Art Deco-influenced building itself. Designed by Williams New […]

Note: You can meet artist Rafael Esquer at PaperSpecs Live New York on June 2nd, 2023, where he’ll be one of 4 special guests for this day-long print lover’s event! Many’s the time I’ve thought, ‘You know what New York City could use more of? Bling.’ Or maybe I haven’t thought that. Still, after seeing […]

I love printed calendars and not just because of the wide variety of designs available. It’s also because they remind me that every year holds a near-limitless number of possibilities. It’s an idea beautifully illustrated in this edition of Fedrigoni’s 365 calendar – a product of the near-limitless possibilities provided by variable data printing and […]

With constant deadlines, troubleshooting and budget concerns, it’s easy for many of us to forget why we got into print and packaging in the first place: the pure joy of bringing something beautiful (and practical) into the world. And it is joy that practically shines out from this pencil box, in part because of all […]

When it comes to self-promotion, a calendar is always a great idea since, when done well, recipients are likely to keep it – and your name – on their desk year-round. Yet our friends at printer Enpointe [projects / website] have gone the extra mile by not only designing a calendar that’s visually appealing, but […]

The Kállas family, which owns Vancouver’s Metropolitan Fine Printers (MET) [projects / website], often looks to their proud Greek heritage for inspiration when it comes to creating their annual client gifts. For years that’s taken the form of olive oil derived from Greek orchards that have been in their family for more than a century. […]