It's easy to feel like a small fish in a big pond when it comes to the art world. There are so many other individuals with the same passion as you, and yet it can sometimes feel impossible to...
Recently, the team at Ken Bromley Art Supplies in the UK shared with us some interesting research they conducted earlier this year. At Paperblanks we are passionate about art and maps, so when we learned that they had created a series...
Have you ever had so much trouble wrapping up a story that you kept adding sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph or even chapter after chapter in search of a conclusion? Maybe you have run out of steam halfway through...
Did You Know?
December 1st is Museum Store Sunday – a special day to promote and celebrate the diverse shops at museums and institutions around the world. If you’re not already familiar with this occasion, be sure to visit museumstoresunday.org...
The Frankfurt Book Fair is on this week, bringing together book enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, innovative products and a love for the written word. This year our Paperblanks booth will feature something extra special. On top...
Name: Linda Shackelford
Age: 31
City: Auckland
Country: New Zealand
Places: I’ve lived in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia but spent most time in the beautiful surroundings of my homeland, New Zealand. I’ve travelled extensively around Europe, to countries including the Netherlands,...
We are deep into October and with it the yearly online creative challenge, Inktober. If you feel you arrived late to the party, know you are probably not the only one. Don’t let the fact that the challenge has...
Late in 2013, a letter tied to the fight for American independence was found in a Manhattan museum's attic. Addressed to "the people of Britain," the twelve-page letter handwritten by Robert R. Livingston goes into great detail about the...
An industrial building in California, a field of wildflowers in the Pacific Northwest, a farm in Louisiana or a lush garden in Ohio: all connected by the metaphorical thread of a teal dress. Earlier this year, eleven photographers, eleven daughters,...
The doomed lovers, the creation epic, the underdog hero... these are all archetypal story arcs that show up in literature from every time period and corner of the globe. But if you think that the critiquing and analyzing of...