The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, a public and city-owned San Francisco art gallery, bans the use of pencils and Paper at special exhibitions. Sketching remains allowed in the museum’s permanent exhibitions. The ban is the exception rather than the rule. Pencils, for example, are allowed everywhere in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and […]
Victorian Civil servant Sir Henry Cole is credited with “inventing” the Christmas card. A wealthy businessman also, he wanted to send friends, family and business contacts a greeting at Christmas. In 1843 he commissioned his artist friend John Callcott Horsley to design almost 1,000 hand-coloured lithographs to send out that year. The Christmas card was […]
One in three adult Britons already know what they’re getting on Christmas Day because they’ve sneaked a peak at their hidden presents. One thousand British adults were interviewed for the survey, commissioned by insurance company insurastore.com, which found that 37 percent of them have sought out their gifts and eight in ten of these […]
An incredibly high-resolution panoramic picture of London has been created by photographer Jeffrey Martin and the London gigapixel project. It’s the highest resolution image of any city ever. The photographs of which the panorama is a composite took three days to take – from the 36th floor of Centre Point. Six weeks were spent composing […]
This tangible graphic represents US Paper production in 2000. The Paper-fold pie chart was designed by Romanian illustrator Alexandra Muresan aka ixycreativity who amongst other things has also visualised global life expectancy. Muresan has represented each Paper usage – newsprint, tissue, containerboard, etc – using the Paper type itself. The stats are quite interesting too: […]
A poll of 1,000 UK office workers commissioned by Kyocera has found evidence of huge Paper waste. The average office worker uses some 10,000 sheets of Paper per year and many as 6,800 of those are wasted. Sixty-eight percent of respondents said they were personally concerned about the environment, compared to 77 percent in 2008. […]
Letter Paper and envelopes that look like computer icons. Not manufactured yet. Source: brigadacreativa.com, via Boing Boing
Office Word of the Day: Anopisthograph “Anopisthograph” From the OED: Anopisthograph, a. Having no writing (or printing) on the back; inscribed only on one side. Also anopisthographic, -ical adjs.; hence anopisthographically adv.” Examples: The reporter was writing in his notebook anopisthographically because he didn’t have time to write on both sides of the Paper. […]
A number of sites offer a variety of lined and graph Paper patterns that you can download and print for free, should you need to print off a sheet or tow on the off chance. The best we’ve found is MathSphere. Patterns include graph, isometric and octagonal Paper. But if you use a lot […]
We sell stationery not propaganda. It’s not our place to provide opinion or even offer any election analysis, but here are some interesting contests to look out for if you’re watching some of the results on telly The constituencies of Ealing Central and Acton, Watford and Filton and Bradley Stoke are three-way marginals, with Conservatives, […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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