Tomorrow is International Museum Day, so what better place to visit on our Literary Landmarks tour than a museum dedicated...
The Haiku Foundation has named April 17th as a day to celebrate the haiku art form. While we’ve probably all...
Name: Francesca Longo Age: 19 City/Town: Piedimonte San Germano Country: Italia Places: I’ve always lived here and I’ve not travelled much. I’ve been to...
The latest edition of Paperblanks® Traveller sees our Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest journal take a delicious tour...
In Literary Landmarks, we feature significant locations from the world of literature. From popular cafe hangouts of the intellectual elite to childhood homes turned into cultural museums, Literary Landmarks tend to be specific spots that our favourite authors have visited...
On a recent Beautiful Bookstores post, a reader suggested that we profile Akateeminen Kirjakauppa (“The Academic Bookstore”) in Stockmann, Helsinki as a contender. And what a great recommendation that was! This bookstore is filled with upwards of 450,000 books in a...
The field of handwriting analysis, referred to as “graphology,” is often debunked as being pseudo-science. But that cynicism about its accuracy is exactly what has made it a popular and controversial topic of conversation for centuries. In our digital age,...
The intricate, gilt-edged design adorning the covers of our new Equinoxe series is a reproduction of a 1688 binding of L’office de le Semaine Sainte. In cultures around the world, the first full moon after the vernal equinox is considered...
Our Peek Inside… series takes a look inside people’s personal journals to celebrate their imaginations and inspire others. Send us an email if you have a project that you would like to be featured. This month we’re taking a look at...
2014 continues to be a great year for Paperblanks® photography, with our customers taking to the world wide web to show off their creativity. For a short month, it was surprisingly difficult to choose just a few top picks, so...
This Saturday is World Compliment Day, an international celebration of positivity and promoting the self-esteem of others. Sounds like a pretty easy (not to mention wonderful) event in which to participate, right? Well, if you’ve ever been the recipient of...
If you follow us on Twitter, Pinterest or Facebook, you know that we’re constantly being inspired by the words of great artists, thinkers and creators. But, just in case you’ve missed some of these motivational images, we thought we’d share...
We’ve been teasing it on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram, and now the wait is finally over. Trust us, we’ve been eagerly anticipating this unveiling as much as you have, and we’re extremely excited to show you what’s in...
A Frida Kahlo self-portrait is instantly recognisable, thanks to her accurate rendering of her own sizable and distinctive eyebrows. And while th0se may be her most famous paintings, Kahlo’s art was not limited to the autobiographical. In these reprints of one...