Category: Features
What’s in the Cards: The Full Spectrum
A look at greeting card trends that let the colors shine. Rainbows are trending up — as are these greeting cards that splendidly showcase them!
What’s in the Cards: High Water Marks
Greeting cards that capture the summer season. Be it the ocean, the lake or the river, the waterfront is an evergreen hot-weather theme with these greeting card finds.
Features with Stark Contrasts in Stationery & Gift Product
Features with stark contrasts in stationery & gift product. Let’s Party with these finds in bridal, baby, office, gifts, & holiday. It’s been said that not everything is black and white, and that’s true — there’s plenty of room for gold too. Keep reading for more releases sure to put a spring in your stationery step!
What’s in the Cards: Social Butterflies
A look at greeting card seasonal trends. The greeting cards featured here have a focus on summer and are ideal to stock retail shelves with to meet the needs of any life’s celebrations. Butterflies are fluttery creatures and represent endurance, change, hope, and life — and, at a more concrete level, sales for your store.
Keeping It Real with Consumers and Market Trends
Today’s consumers seek equilibrium, authenticity and balance between humans and technology, brand and personal, global and local. While the desire for standout design never abates, the market is trending toward a certain down-to-earth quality. That’s just one insight from a new study, Expert Outlook 2019: Find Balance, by global ethnographical market research firm Canvas8.
Noted Lookbook: Peppered Stem
As refreshing as a farmer’s market offering or a rustic retreat, this timely yellow-green speaks to today’s healthy, outdoor lifestyles. For booth numbers, please consult the Noted directory at the show.
2019 Baby Trends
2019 Baby Trends. The nursery has assumed more importance than ever as its evolved from a room for rest and feeding into a backdrop for social media photography. Learn what is hot, what’s timeless, and what designers are saying.
2019 Gift Trends
2019 Gift trends are all about form and function. This article discusses what’s hot in the gift industry along with timeless items ideal for giving.
2019 Office Stationery Trends
High Design offers a big infusion of excitement in the office stationery product market. Take a look at the 2019 office stationery trends.
Noted Lookbook: Sweet Lilac
The blushes so big in 2018 are slowly fading away. In their place comes this endearing and easy-to-love pink-infused lavender. For booth numbers, please consult the Noted directory.
The Hit List: The Best Finds at the Winter Shows 2019
Retailers shared what the best product finds were at the Winter season shows.
Noted Lookbook: Princess Blue
This royal blue lives up to its name by diffusing its regal and majestic qualities wherever it appears! For booth numbers, please consult the Noted directory at the show.
Paper Source’s Chicago Lab Store is the testing ground
Paper Source has 129 stores dotting the 50 states. But its Lab Store, located in downtown Chicago’s famed Loop, stands out from the rest. Not only is the 1,800-square-foot space housed directly below the Paper Source corporate office, but it serves as a conduit for the evolution of the brand.
Spring Shows 2019: Stationery in Season
The advent of the warmer months also promises the advent of lots of new product! This dreamy letterpressed design on tree-free paper is from Paper Epiphanies’ collaboration with Gia Graham — and is one of many finds at the spring shows. Read on for our inaugural Noted Lookbook and UnBound Coverage.
Noted Lookbook: Living Coral
This Noted Lookbook shows you some color trends this season. For more information on any of the products showcased here, please visit our Reader Services Card online and use the circle number to request additional information.
UnBound: BookExpo & Book Con
BookExpo 2019 will debut a new “show within a show” at the upcoming 2019 event May 29-31 called UnBound. Led by stationery industry veteran and recently appointed Event Director Patti Stracher-Lee, UnBound, a collection of bookish goods, will present merchandise buyers from independent and chain bookstores, museum stores and specialty retailers a curated range of complementary products to their book business.
Winter Show 2019 Wrap Up: Las Vegas
Las Vegas Market didn’t disappoint this year and neither did the other Winter Shows. This wrap up of Winter 2019 Markets showcases some of the top picks found at Market.