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Introducing an exclusive partnership with The New York Public Library celebrating the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures! Featuring reproductions of historical documents and cultural artifacts from The New York Public Library Spencer Collection, Rare Book Division...
Our Shape Shift series reproduces an original work by heralded Art Deco designer Pierre Legrain. It highlights key elements of his artistic style, with the triangles, trapezoids and zigzagging lines all bringing a lively sense of movement. We have further...
When Yonnie sailed the Aegean Sea this September, the problem was not choosing which Paperblanks journals to bring, but which ones not to! About her trip, Yonnie writes: I chose the Nocturnelle Mini mainly to record the names and a brief history of the...
Our softcover notebook collection, Paperblanks Flexis, continues to expand, with four new cover designs now available! This season we're introducing popular cover designs Celestial Planisphere, Aureo and Moonlight as Flexis – all available in ultra, midi and mini size formats. And that's...
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) was one of the art world’s original bad boys. His masterful bronze and marble figures made him one of the most famous and controversial artists of the 19th century. Even today, a century later, his work...
Our primary concern when selecting paper is that it is environmentally sound, that its opacity is consistently high and that its writing smoothness (how it handles ink) is exceptional.
A display of brilliant fireworks is suggested in our Fire Flowers design, which reproduces a binding of Claude J. Dorat’s La Déclamation Théâtrale. Currently held in the British Library’s magnificent collection of antique bindings, this is a 20th-century British...
Paperblanks' Embellished Manuscripts Collection is a series of journals that portray the work of some of the greatest writers, thinkers and artists of all time. The Poe, Tamerlane journal, examined in the video above, is one of the best-selling...
Beginning with our first Paperblanks collection in 1992, we have always placed the highest value on quality and innovation, even developing unique printing processes in order to achieve our richly detailed designs. We celebrate this marriage of classical binding...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. It doesn’t have to be this way; 80% of all visual impairment can be prevented, treated or cured.