Features

The Indie Urge

These small brands speak to shopping small while also providing a big dose of design. 1. Cherry Tomato Grow Kit. Modern Sprout. Atlanta, Faire,... READ MORE »

Summer’s Enduring Sweetness

Sweet treats and sunshine highlight the season, but the sentiments on its stationery endures. Cake, 2.0 For the second year running, cake takes the ... READ MORE »

A Second Wind

When a cozy L.A. card and gift shop survives several decades and two owners, that’s pretty impressive. But the fact that the second owner was once a... READ MORE »

The Seven-Year Niche

Seventy years after its own establishment, the Occasions Group unveiled TOG.ink as the ultimate custom print sidekick. With its introduction, small-sc... READ MORE »

Fresh Picks: New Year, New Growth

2025 is the year of Mocha Mousse — and this editor is sensing an absolutely earthly connection. After all, from this warming, rich hue, life in the ... READ MORE »

The Season of Smartness

There’s no shortage of panic these days, but the numbers indicate that business is decent — if not booming. The National Retail Federation (NRF... READ MORE »

The Pendulum, It Always Swings

In third grade during the late 1970s, one of my classmates announced that one day, phones would be like TVs. You’d be able to see the other person. ... READ MORE »

The Scourge of Counterfeit Cards

Recently, a longtime Greeting Card Association (GCA) member shared that its card designs were being stolen and sold by more than one foreign online pl... READ MORE »

Shoppe Object Moves Uptown: A bright new locale lent itself to dynamic discovery

Greetings, stationery and gift nerds, from Shoppe Object’s fantastic new digs in the Starrett-Lehigh Building in Chelsea. I’m still sorting out al... READ MORE »

The editor-in-chief snapped a selfie in the ink.paper.crafts booth.

The Semi-Annual Stationery Affair: NY NOW delivers fresh currents in paper — now for literally a century, and counting

At NY NOW, stationery is serious business. Any venue with any sort of offering — from high end and handmade to topical and trendy — cannot miss wa... READ MORE »

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