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People of Paperblanks

Interviews with artists, authors and real-life journallers.

For our "X Questions With" series, we're speaking with talented individuals from around the world who have inspired us with their creativity and passion. If you have a story to tell or someone you'd like to see profiled, let...
"Personalising my journal in my own one-of-a-kind way is so much fun."
Sometimes we come across talented artists through browsing social media, sometimes our amazing Paperblanks community leads us to them and sometimes we find them in purely serendipitous ways. Once in a while it’s a combination of all three, and...
This week on Paperblanks Traveller our Blake, Poems journal travels with Emilie to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean to soak up some rays. About her visit and these photos, Emilie writes: I took those pictures during my holiday to Guadeloupe, a...
"Pablo Picasso said: Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
This year we are celebrating Paperblanks' 25th anniversary, but our journey began long before that first journal collection in 1992. Our story begins with the 1972 founding of Cloudburst Press in an old log cabin in the mountains of British...
Name: Goldeen Ogawa Age: Mid twenties Residence: California, USA Occupation: I am a speculative fiction author, artist, illustrator and cartoonist, though I tend to blur the lines between those labels quite a lot. Teachers/Education: I didn’t have teachers as many people would recognize...
Being a creative entrepreneur takes courage and resilience, endless nights and busy days. It also requires wearing many hats and learning new skills or honing existing ones. One thing is for sure, though: it needs a great deal of...
For a recent Writing Wednesday, we looked into the real-life people who inspired five infamous literary characters. For this week, our last Writing Wednesday post before Hallowe'en, we thought we would take this research to the extreme, and find...
A little bit about Sophie Name: Sophie Dupont Age: 36 Location: Bouveret / Switzerland Favourite places to travel: Ireland Passions: Drawing, painting, reading, movies, board games, role-play (like Dungeon & Dragons for instance) Education/Training: Swiss Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, illustration drawing at Atelier Art &...