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This is a clever idea (and I hope the artists are gaining something from it). The Arizona Daily Star is presenting 12 days or wrapping paper; each day’s paper is by a local artist. Each paper that has been published is downloadable as a PDF that you can print. I think I would just print it and gift it, rather than risk it being recycled with the rest of the gift wrap!

Here’s some fantastic paper illustration. Click through to watch the animation!

Here’s another use for that artist-designed wrapping paper! Two aspiring Irish designers (students at the Galway Technical Institute) put their skills to the test when they were tasked with creating a paper dress for the Galmont Hotel in the city.

I enjoyed a lecture on the history of Hallmark pop-ups at the Movable Book Society’s conference in Kansas City this fall (where the Hallmark headquarters are located – the visitor’s center is worth a trip!) Have you seen their new paper wonder cards?

Sadly, Robert Rainwater, a curator and art historian who oversaw an expansion of the New York Public Library’s holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the 1970s onward, died on Nov. 13. Rainwater curated an important exhibition at the NYPL called On Paper: The History of an Art, in 1990, just before I discovered paper. It featured holdings from the Leonard B. Schlosser Collection on the History of Papermaking. I have visited the collection to do research (by appointment), and I encourage you to do this, too!

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