This month on #PeopleOfPaperblanks we had the pleasure of sitting down with Peter Dorey, an established landscape painter in the UK. We chat to him all about his current projects, where he gets his inspiration and his plans for the...
The art of writing can take all forms – from prose to poetry, short stories to songs. Today, we’re taking a look at that last craft, one that often gets left out of the “proper” writing discussion but that takes...
For the past four years, Justin Samgar has been writing and performing poetry on demand for media, brands and events with his own company, PoetryPusher. These poems and lyrics are used for columns, event reports, special occasions, shows, product presentations...
John Lennon wasn’t just an accomplished lyricist and songwriter, he was also an extremely talented visual artist who studied at the Liverpool College of Art. By the time he was murdered in 1980, Lennon had filled countless sketchbooks and doodled...
This weekend the 56th annual Grammy Awards will honour some of the greatest musical achievements of the past year. An impending event of this calibre got us thinking: How different is the art of songwriting from the novel and short...
We’re excited to finally be able to tell you about the newest addition to the Embellished Manuscripts Collection, the ‘Amy Winehouse, Tears Dry’ journal. Designed in partnership with the Amy Winehouse Foundation charity, this book features a self-portrait of the...
A year ago we wrote about the Brocaded Paper harpsichord that an Austrian instrument-maker, Martin Pühringer, had built. Pühringer took the Golden Fuchsia design from our Brocaded Paper collection of writing journals and incorporated it into the beautiful harpsichord seen in...
Two years ago, Martin Pühringer, an Austrian instrument-maker, contacted us about incorporating some of our designs into a harpsichord he was...