When Your Haute, You're Haute! When you not, you're not! When you're wrong admit it, too: our editor posted the wrong valentines to the feature on Haute Papier Collection. Call it love blindness. So many cool hot valentines coming through he got them confused? Our apologies... and here is the post again with the right Valentines.

{Above, card detail from Lady Bug Press of Boise, Idaho} These warm lovely winter days bring to us thoughts of Amore, Amore, Amore… no? Do you have a beautiful Valentine Card printed on a Neenah or CRANE® Paper sheet? Send in your best work. Throughout the next few weeks, we will be sharing the love of [...]

Holding your breath? Wait no more! According to research shared in this article in the NYT Sunday Review on Sunday January 8. 2012, those who make and publicly state New Year’s resolutions are more likely to achieve them. That is give hope to those willing to say it loud. We asked a few friends what resolutions they have made for 2012 and what plans they have ...

It has been said that 90% of what we need to know most about life was learned at our grandmother’s knee. It just takes most another 30 years to apply her lessons. Chicagoland author, designer, speaker Justin Ahrens reminds us in this new book that it’s never too late to start applying good lessons in order to lead a more fulfilling life. “You may be closer ...

Re-released! Talented-Level-Headed-Type-Master Jessica Hische talkd with Herr Bucher about creativity, voice and keeping it real in this latest installment of "Wait... What Was The Question?" on A-the-G. Be informed. Be amused. Gain insight.

The Way They Were: In her latest book, Debbie Millman sets out to prove that someone can cut through the mindless brand babble and reveal something new about this shopworn subject. She does this by deploying her special gift of making interesting friends in interesting places say interesting things as though Millman were their one friend left on earth. They know ...

"The time I take to answer this question I'll never get back," says Christopher Simmons, "...Everything we do — create, love, mourn, worry, work, play, and so on — draws from a pool of nanoseconds into which no tributary flows. We can give away our time however we choose — just remember that you're not going to get any of it back." For the next 12 weeks ...

2011 Brand New Conference Report with Armin Vit: The conference website made a bold promise: "After a successful inaugural conference in New York City last year we wanted to take the show to the opposite side of the United States and San Francisco felt like the best hub for a West Coast gathering of brand and identity designers and aficionados." We turned to ...

"Ramen served the purpose of sustaining people through disaster," writes correspondent Katelyn Bottoms, "Now, through Lucky Peach, Chang is simply renewing the noodle's mission in a different era, for a different problem." David Chang of Momofuku NYC created Lucky Peach, his “issue / episode" creation. We put our chopstix to it, sampling graphics most sublime, ...

344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself-Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment. Move over Rhonda Byrne and your silly little secrets! StefanBucher has closed the book on the Self Improvement Canon with this spot-on send-up of creative self help guides. This eponymous tract is packed real wisdom that will keep you laughing. It will transport ...