330-308-3300
Contact Us
There’s Strength in Diversity in Indie Publishing
10 February 2020|Magazine, Print
For publishers who want to learn the latest best practices and new opportunities, you can’t go wrong attending Making Publishing Pay in London this February. This year’s event includes four indie publishers that have successfully revamped their business models. As...
continue reading
Multilingual Free Fonts for  a Global Design Experience
07 February 2020|design
One look at Balerno Serif Light Free conjures up romantic places and faraway lands. Part of the Balerno Serif font family from My Creative Land, it includes ligatures, alternates and swashes for multiple languages and applications. The elegant Didone serif...
continue reading
A Tree Falls in Brooklyn… and Two Indies are Born
06 February 2020|Magazine, Print
Credit: Jackie Roman for InsideHook Freelance travel photographer Matt Hranek had a windfall … literally … the helped him and his partner Yolanda Edwards launch a dream in print. The couple, who met on the staff of Condé Nast Traveler...
continue reading
The Catalog Mindset is Empowering the Future of Retail
05 February 2020|Catalog, Print
It’s a multi-channel world out there, and we live it every day. We jump from direct mail to smartphone to brick and mortar purchase then back again to our tablets to order a missing size online. We do this almost...
continue reading
Raising a Glass to Wine, Whiskey and Cigars
04 February 2020|Magazine, Print
Don’t call Marvin Shanken a publisher. The man behind Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado and Whisky Advocate calls himself “an experience maker in addition to a content provider.” “People think of me as a businessman or an entrepreneur, I’m really an...
continue reading
More Americans Went to the Library than the Movies Last Year… Really
04 February 2020|Print
It seems hard to believe, but in 2019 more Americans went to the library than the movies. “The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has...
continue reading
A Flip of the Page in the Catalog Industry
03 February 2020|Catalog, Print
Patagonia - Winter 2018 catalog design project by Thienkim Cao Stable, and possibly growing. That’s how many industry experts are positioning direct mail catalogs after a robust holiday season, according to David Sharp in the Associated Press. “Industry experts say...
continue reading
Paper and the Art of the Comeback… a Global Perspective
03 February 2020|Paper, Print
“It’s a vital tool that’s evolved over thousands of years,” notes the narrator in this BBC video How Paper is Making a Comeback, “enabling the world to share stories, news and religious scripture. The video is part of a BBC...
continue reading
The Look of a Good Sharpie… in a Free Font
31 January 2020|design
Well, this is gorgeous. Highlander Marker Script by the good folks at PixelBuddha is a bold script font that looks like a Sharpie wielded by the best version of our design selves. The font set includes double-letter ligatures (cross both...
continue reading
In the Age of Instagram, Photographers Still Long to Appear in Print
30 January 2020|design, Magazine, Print
Even if you’re not old enough to remember first-hand those iconic photography magazines like Look and Life, you’ve probably seen plenty of references to them in popular culture. “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind...
continue reading