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PatternPeople is one of the new collaborators for the Tenth & Grant paper goods line. They recently created this pleasing trio of folding notecards titled Firecracker, Stripes, and Cross Stitch. With its fresh color scheme of orange, pink and warm grey, each card works wonderfully alone or in combination with the others. All are printed on 100% recycled paper using soy-based inks.

PatternPeople created the artwork for the third installment of Pinball’s Designer Card Series. Their paisley pattern features a sophisticated color pattern, and a lovely layered approach to surface design. Tenth & Grant released this same pattern as a folding notecard and pocket notebook just in time for the 2008 National Stationery Show. Don’t forget, you can get yours free with your next Pinball order. 

It’s a wrap!

Tenth & Grant has officially ended its time at the 2008 National Stationery Show. It was an incredible and mostly fun learning experience!

The Javits Center (pictured above) was the many-windowed home to Surtex (a surface design show) and the ICFF (international contemporary furniture fair) during the same time as the Stationery show. What a convergence of design. There was such beautiful creativity and craftmanship on display at the stationery show (loop, Night Owl, Spruce Avenue, to name but a few), but honestly, you did have to wade through a bit of uninspired ware to find the gems. Such is the industry. It’s not terribly sad to part ways with the Hannah Montana singing pens and the jillions of smiling dog greeting cards, but we will miss our friends from aisle 1800!

Thank you New York. Onward to Portland!

During the third day, we decided it was time to shake it up. Ashley and I covered the entire floor of the Javits Center and connected with many other exhibitors as Pinball People. It was really great to share the Pinball love with everyone and hear about their show experience. Our booth drew more media interest today as well, which is exciting. Since we’ve been existing indoors at the Javits Center for four solid days, I thought it would be good to walk a bit and take in some of the NYC street typography. Tomorrow is the last day, we’ll keep you posted on the show wrap-up.

Wowee, we’ve just wrapped up the second day of the stationery show! We had the pleasure of seeing our good friend Lisa DeJohn today, and chatting it up with great like-minded people from the paper goods industry. The peeps at Night Owl were sure sweet, and we connected with a number of great new retailers for Tenth & Grant. Stay tuned for more details!

We made it to New York! Saturday was a long day of set-up for the Tenth & Grant booth (#1847), and today the National Stationery Show opened with a bang. A steady stream of retailers, students, industry insiders, and more passed by our cozy display of eco-friendly paper goods. There are over 1,000 exhibitors at this show, and the Javits Center is enormous, but somehow we managed to catch up with some of our favorite friends (Tara Hogan, Emily Quillen, and Jill Bliss) today.

We’ll be doing a daily post, and hope to have reports of more paper magic tomorrow.

Long time, no post! Here is photographic proof of more print awesomeness here at Pinball Publishing. Enjoy!

A slew of business cards for locals and out-of-towners, including Massachusetts eco-modern boutique Greenward, Portland stationer Ecru, Montana honey farm Big Sky, Portland massage therapist Tahlia Harrison, North Carolina-based photographer Jay Flynn, and Lux Construction.

A couple of close-ups:

Identity system for Portland newcomers, Frank Creative, an ad agency located in the newly refurbished Ford Building just a few blocks down the road:

Postcards and invitations for New York-based stationery artist, Tara Hogan of Ink & Wit:

Beautiful black and metallic silver postcards for artist Laura Su:

Business cards and mailing labels for New York photographer Poul Ober:

Chipboard rack cards for People’s Food Co-op and CD/DVD replication specialists Cravedog:

Beautiful CD packaging for Portland-based ambient record label Somnia, featuring stippled artwork:

6-color paper soap bands for Brooklyn all-natural soap-maker, Skinny Skinny:

Here’s a view of our latest addition to the Pinball Designer Card Deck, created by indefatigable graphic design powerhouse, Aaron Draplin. The card is a tough love homage to Aaron’s weiner dog, Gary. Get yours free with every order and at select locations worldwide (let us know if you’d like a stack for your store, shop, or office), and learn everything there is to know about this cute, small, yet ear-shatteringly shrill Dachshund. Start now, so you can collect ‘em all!

A nod on Aaron’s own blog.

Look for new designs each month, featuring fresh work from a talented team of graphic designers, illustrators, and artists, expertly printed by Pinball’s savvy production team. Stay tuned for next month’s design by Jessie Whipple of Pattern People.

For all you who’ve been missing the business card posts, here’s a recent roundup.This print feast for the eyes includes cards for fmyi, Pail Design, Caffé Pallino, Tumbleweed, and the new PDX boutique Hermitage (to name only a few). 

Feast your eyes on two of our recent giganto poster projects, both created by Tokyo-based design-a-holic Ian Lynam. Both of these beauties are true works of art, printed on 100% post-consumer waste 100# text stock and trimmed to a sizable 16X20 for maximum noticeability. Spruce up your nearest telephone pole with a poster printed by Pinball!

2/1 topographic folding poster for LA-based Arroyo Arts Collective:

2/0 festival poster for the upcoming, not-to-be-missed PDX Film Fest: