Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen.
As part of our Global Citizen program, Paperblanks enjoys the opportunity to partner with some truly inspirational organisations. One such group is WriteGirl, "a community of women writers, promotes...
Today in our #PeopleOfPaperblanks interview we are thrilled to welcome talented French artist Arkane to the Endpaper Blog. Arkane’s portraits combine an intriguing mix of bold strokes and painstaking detail found in a supple fold of fabric or a wayward lock of hair....
We recently found the coolest thing on the internet (well, if you love books like we do). Library Thing is a collaborative project from a community of nearly two million bibliophiles from around the world. By joining, you can compile your...
Even though I spend much time working on the internet my passions are very much old-world! I'm fascinated with the Victorian and Edwardian eras and collect antique photographs.
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 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...
"It’s hard for me to pick just one or even a few best things about the journals, I like the soft feel of the paper while I’m writing and that the ink from my pen doesn’t show through the pages."
You'd be hard pressed to name another family that has enriched the Western literary canon in the way that the Brontë sisters have. They wrote novels whose profoundness, subversive characters and fierce emotions stirred the rigid society of Victorian...
Always have an open heart to explore the beauty inside of you and around you.
This week we had the pleasure of chatting with our Free Your Mind series cover artist, Catrin Welz-Stein. The German artist’s dreamlike digital art creates an ethereal new world for its viewers. We talk to Catrin about her process...