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Belgium: Lanaken Mill’s water usageLanaken Mill is located along the Albert Canal in Belgium. Since 1967, the mill has been licensed by the relevant national authority, nv De Scheepvaart, to source the required water from the canal for utilisation at...

It turns out that scientists have discovered a mathematical order to the crumpling of paper, which is predictable and relatively simple. This past November, in his research paper published in the journal Communications Physics, Omer Gottesman, a...

Whether the project is an annual report, product design, packaging, Web site, interactive product, marketing brochure, corporate identity program or environmental graphics, companies can save time and misunderstanding by putting together a design brief...

Kelly is known for his focus on the dynamics between shape, form and color, based on real-life observations. While his body of work includes paintings, sculptures and works on paper, Kelly also created installations. In 2015, shortly before his death,...

When I found the Ink app by Sincerely Inc., (Sincerely.com/ink) I felt a certain kind of joy—one that celebrates print AND the ease of instant gratification that technology often delivers. While the idea of marrying the capability of your phone with the...

For me the most surprising outcome of the study is how 18-24-year-olds feel about print and paper—a generation that has been raised on technology and for whom technology is more fully integrated into their lives and behaviors. The study showed that 62%...

WAD workBefore meeting the book-jacket designer Louise Fili, now my wife of more than thirty years, I had never heard the name of nor seen any work by William Addison Dwiggins (Dwig, WAD, Bill). I had no idea that he (or anyone else for that matter)...

When Sun Chemical’s sales and marketing teams needed a paper piece to showcase the company’s printing inks and pigments, it found a solution on Sappi’s coated paper Opus—and reached a whole new audience in the process.The problemSun Chemical had...

To highlight their products the design team concepted and produced a condensed piece on Opus with 10 perforated tear-off cards that highlighted examples of special effects possible with Sun Chemical products—a citrus scent wafting from a photo of an...