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Calling Cards of Antiquity

By Paperstone on October 27, 2014 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments
Calling Cards of Antiquity

If you’re a business owner or manager, how do you get your name “out there”? Despite the digital revolution, business cards are still an important marketing tool, and they have a captivating history. Several different forerunners morphed into today’s compact and stylish business card. First, there was the bearer card, which appeared in England and […]

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James Ward’s Adventures in Stationery reviewed

By Paperstone on October 2, 2014 in Fun, Office Supplies with 0 Comments
James Ward’s Adventures in Stationery reviewed

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward – Review by Kaz G. James Ward, author of Adventures in Stationery, knows that a book about stationery could be boring. As the organiser of the Boring Conference, and the I Like Boring Things blog, he’s fully aware that others see everything he […]

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The Art of Doodling

By Paperstone on July 10, 2014 in Artists & Graphics Supplies, Fun with 0 Comments
The Art of Doodling

Are you a doodler? Psychologists have found that doodling helps us focus and remember details if we are studying or speaking on the phone. One well-known doodler was the Noble Laureate in Literature for 1913, poet Rabindranath Tagore, who made huge number of doodles in his famous manuscript. Another doodler was the poet and doctor […]

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Stationery Addicts

By Paperstone on April 3, 2014 in Office Supplies with 0 Comments
Stationery Addicts

Are you a stationery spotter? Are you addicted to stylish pens or beautiful notebooks with artistic cover designs? There are probably millions of us out there, but few can beat Angelika Unverhau from Dinslaken in Germany who has more than 220,000 ballpoint pens. Angelika has been collecting unusual pens since she was a girl, but […]

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National Stationery Week 2014

By Paperstone on March 20, 2014 in Books & Pads, Fun, Office Supplies, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
National Stationery Week 2014

In the hardships of the trenches of World War I, what kept our soldiers going? In horrible circumstances, handwritten letters from loved ones back home helped lift men’s spirits. And even today, handwritten letters have great emotional significance. No one wants a love letter by email – it needs to arrive by snail mail, written […]

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Getting a Leg Up

By Paperstone on December 5, 2013 in Artists & Graphics Supplies with 0 Comments
Getting a Leg Up

A teenage artist has given herself a leg up into the art world- thanks to her unusual habit of drawing on her thighs. Jody Steel, 19, shot to fame after her ‘leg doodles’- drawn during college lectures- went viral. The film production student even impressed her teacher with the thigh drawings…. so he offered her […]

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A Sight for Sore Eyes

By Paperstone on November 26, 2013 in Artists & Graphics Supplies with 0 Comments
A Sight for Sore Eyes

Argentine artist Leandro Granato is literally moved to tears when he creates his quirky works of art. Eccentric Leandro has invented how own art form which he calls ‘eye painting’. He first of all snorts paint up his nose, and then squirts the liquid through his eye on to a canvas. The eye paintings have […]

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The Smallest Exhibition In the World?

By Paperstone on November 13, 2013 in Artists & Graphics Supplies with 0 Comments
The Smallest Exhibition In the World?

The owner of a Los Angeles art gallery has taken her commitment to an art to a new level- she now has six tiny oil paintings inside her ear! Tig Sigfrid has allowed American artist Joe Sola to install the six micro paintings on tiny white ‘gallery walls’ inside her ear canal. The paintings measure […]

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Calling all Budding Writers!

By Paperstone on November 7, 2013 in Books & Pads with 0 Comments
Calling all Budding Writers!

Calling all budding writers! Can you write a novel in a month? It might sound impossible, but the first draft of historical novel Water for Elephants – now a film on general release- was written by Sara Gruen in just 30 days. Gruen wrote the book as part of National Novel Writing Month- and this […]

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High Art

By Paperstone on August 15, 2013 in Artists & Graphics Supplies, Fun with 0 Comments

Fearless graffiti artists abseiled down a cliff and painted mock prehistoric artwork at Britain’s biggest caves, the Wookey Hole tourist attraction in Somerset. The Banksy-style graffiti attack took place during the night on July 28 or 29 and the culprits created two paintings. One work was dated 33,000 BC and shows cavemen being chased by […]

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