Ron Chan says he cannot believe he let us talk him into designing a poster for HOW Design Live with all he has going on, but we knew he was a soft touch when it came to bragging about his home town. Look for Ron and others at the Neenah booth on Monday and Tues. Check back with the blog for the signers' schedule. Here we get tips on what to see and do in 'Frisco ...

UnShow™ is back — and we are very, very, very un-unexcited about the work we are about to receive. One printed object will be named the “Best in Show” grand-prize winner and two printed objects per category will be named winners. All winning images will published in HOW Magazine. Category winners receive $500 and the grand-prize winner receives $1,000 ...

Go to this school: Sleeve, Standard Reverse Tuck, French Reverse Tuck, Standard Straight Tuck, Airplane Style Tuck, Mailer Lock, Tuck and Tongue, Bellow Tuck, Arthur Lock, Edge Lock Tuck, 1-2-3-4 Bottom, Gable Top, Sean End, Full Flap Auto Bottom? Plastic Surgery? Lava Life? No! Packaging options from International Paperbox and Package University! Read all about ...

  Link to The Kickstarter Video Above Here: Engraving Nerd Meet Nancy Sharon Collins: The Ultimate Engraving Nerd   Our friend Nancy Sharon Collin is the Ultimate Engraving Nerd — the nation’s most vocal and persistent advocate of the ancient art of engraving. Her recent book  The Complete Engraver will be in stores in September [...]

Who won that Neenah Classic Car Contest? Meet Jim O'Connor of Chicagoland, winner of the Neenah Classic Car [Mustang] Contest. We tricked him. First, Jim was told was that he'd won $500 and invited to lunch. As we approached the restaurant, a new Mustang Convertible swung into view honking and blinking with balloons a-flying.. Jim almost fainted.

  Tonight’s kick off of HOW Design Live in Boston featured Sam Harrison as Keynote — Sam is a wonder of words and insights. Entitled Coltrane, Concord, Cool Kid and other Creative Choices, only a dude like Sam can turns all those C’s into Straight A’s. I hope all the C Students texting in the [...]

First things first: The Beast adores his mom and dad. He might be a expletive spewing Yukon Cornelius, but the guy is a sensitve beast. On Draplin’s website is the latest interview from The Great Discontent where Draplin lays it out. This has to be one of the funniest, most candid, most French-filled-on-the record-sober-interview of an American designer ...

Kody Chamberlain takes the Boston Histree Primah and fails. He introduces us to his beloved, dead pet, Downtown Chicken and suggests ways to cook Cotton Mather with chicken and sausage. When Acadia meets South Boston, there are no survivors. Please go read more....

H. W. Longfellow immortalized the an accomplished designer, engraver, printer, silversmith named Paul Revere making the tale of his midnight ride, whatever its mild inaccuracies, a tale of courage and patriotism. But Revere's life work w. Could he know then that Revere's life would be one of the first of many legends in not only American history but in the annals ...