Month: March 2018

Don’t get me wrong, I love San Francisco. (I’m a designer; it’s in our genes.) But there ARE times when, for two cents, I’d crumple up the city in the palm of my hand, toss it over my shoulder, and walk off muttering a weary “Meh.” And thanks to the folks at Palomar, I can do just that, or at least crumple up a map of the Bay Area…or Paris or Rome or any of more than 50 other cities of the world. “Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s...

PaperSpecsGallery.com features a designer who’d very much like you to bend and fold his business card. In the process, you get a memorable experience. Using the concept of negative space, the logo is revealed after the small, intricately die-cut flaps are folded...

Flowing engraved script; a tender pink, gold and yellow palette; romantic curling tendrils and tiny butterflies; velvety Pearl White Crane’s paper — at www.PaperSpecsGallery.com we feel this wedding invitation line from RoxyLou is a girlie girl’s lyrical...

Some people are thankful for living in the age of the smartphone. Me, I’m thankful for living in an age when smartphone packaging looks this cool. Always aiming to be one step ahead of the competition, Korea’s Sky Electronics knows how important packaging is to projecting an image of being ahead of the curve. The box – which began life as packaging for one of their smartphones – is even more sophisticated than it first appears, and that’s all down to the impressive substrate used. A word of warning: If you’re prone to bubble-wrap-popping, the urge to start popping...