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 ...

Ho-Ho-Holy Holiday Card Avalanche from 6.25 Paper Studio, a locally owned stationery company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan which promotes and supports its local community while working towards a healthier planet. A big Neenah user, owner/creative director Abbey Fowler offers up this chill'n holiday ideas. She also contributes a regular wedding feature to our ...

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 ...

Speaking of expressing one’s personality, we here at Syd Design are in the process of changing our name to 6.25 Paper Studio. (www. 625paper.com) The old name did not connect to my heart or feel like the right brand to use on our current business path (plus, to be honest, I’m over people calling me Syd). So instead we’re borrowing my own wedding date, creating ...

Neenah could not ask more from a design partner than it enjoys from the folks at Farmhouse, just minutes from downtown Atlanta. Led by designers Ellie McKenzie and Gary Bannister, and writer/producer Robin Salter, Farmhouse boasts unsurpassed paper and print production knowledge and Neenah knowledge and experience without peer.

Do you know how many total buildings there are in New York City's five Boroughs? It is estimated that there are 900,000. Australian-born James Gulliver Hancock of Greenpoint Brooklyn is out to paint or sketch all of them Five hundred down...899,500 to go. More or less.

Design Army's Pum and Jake have big plans for HOW Design Live in Chicago: JAKE - Is the Jerry Springer Show still there? I would like to go see his show and throw a !#$%@$#@ chair. PUM - I am too busy to plan so wherever my feet take me I will be sure to take a picture ... and figure out what it is later.

Mig Reyes… is a … um… a… Mig Reyes is a definitely… um… decidedly talented creator of… well. Mig is a brand unto himself. He defies definition. Go see for yourself. The only way through it is to experience it yourself.

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you part ways with your iPhone. But here’s the cold, hard truth: A hand-written note is worth a thousand emails. Why? “Digital is high tech, low touch and a lot of people are frustrated by that,” says Nancy Sharon Collins of Nancy Sharon Collins, Stationer. Go to: http://handengravedstationery.blogspot.com

You know the type: Type Nerd. Jason Tselentis is and he proselytizes: “I tell students that it’s okay to be a type nerd. Love type. Love words. Fondle them. Massage them. By the time they graduate, I hope my students not only have a foundation in type design and application, but a hopeless obsessive-compulsive addiction to letterforms,” he says. "You ...