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Paper is dead… long live paper

Posted October 10, 2011 by
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Via an ad that Karen noticed in the New York Times Business section, here’s an interesting response to all those predictions about the death of paper. Domtar, a Canada based manufacturer of freesheet paper, has created a website that touts the benefits of paper, tackles myths about paper and sustainability, and contains some snappy (and annoyingly un-embeddable) video vignettes about to-do lists and the paperless office. According to the homepage:

Paper is a sustainable, renewable, recyclable, plant-based product that connects us in so many ways to the important things in life. Great ideas are started on paper. The world is educated on paper. Businesses are founded on paper. Love is professed on paper. Important news is spread on paper.

That’s why we love paper.

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More vintage ads

Posted October 3, 2011 by
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For an overcast New York Monday, here’s another fun vintage ad: a businessman as he telephones, writes, meets, and miraculously still finds time to buy flowers on his way home. Given the repetition, it strikes me as a little mini lesson for language learners.

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Vintage QV commercials

Posted September 7, 2011 by
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Karen blogged about this last week, but I’ve finally figured out how to get the embed code to work, so I figured I would highlight one of our favorite vintage Quo Vadis TV commercials. Love the dog in this one… and the special effects:

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Vintage Quo Vadis TV Commercials

Posted August 23, 2011 by
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Remember rabbit ears? 

Here are some old Quo Vadis commercials to enjoy!  In French, of course!

Clique ici!

 

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The making of… customized planner covers

Posted July 18, 2011 by
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Here’s a final video from the series Cecilia took at our plant in Montreal, which shows covers being hot stamped with the logo of Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, Canada.

Hot stamping is a process in which an engraved image, or die, is heated, then forced down against a cover with a marking foil sandwiched in between. Where the die meets the cover, the ink from the foil is left behind.

If you’d like more information about customizing covers for your company or organization, check out our Customization Wizard, which lets you explore options and submit an inquiry.

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The making of… Club covers

Posted June 30, 2011 by
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Here’s another one of the videos in our mini “making of” series that Cecilia shot in Montreal… this one shows the stitching that’s applied to our pebbled Club covers.

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Watch how our covers are made

Posted June 28, 2011 by
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With the caveat that this is not a professional production — our product manager, Cecilia, took it with a hand-held camera at our plant in Montreal — I thought it would be interesting to share this video, which takes a behind-the-scenes look at part of our manufacturing process.

Here, you’ll see strips of vinyl being cut, welded, and QAed to make our planner covers. Later this week, I’ll post clips of other processes, though if you can’t wait, you can watch them now on our new YouTube channel.

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Ink and water

Posted March 28, 2011 by
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From our French blog comes another cool video campaign, this one on behalf of World Water Day. Non-potable water kills millions of people each year; to illustrate the fact, black ink is shown coursing through veins of water to reveal a set of dynamic, riveting drawings. The narration is in French, but the drawings are impressive on their own.

Enjoy… and be sure to add your name to the petition to demand action on the part of world leaders.

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Paper cars and the blank page

Posted February 24, 2011 by
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From my French counterpart comes a link to this Audi video, in which blank pieces of paper come together to form the outlines of a car. (“Nothing inspires us like the blank page.”)

A bit self-serious for a car ad, perhaps, but a neat image all the same! Enjoy…

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Paper man

Posted January 6, 2011 by
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Here’s something fun I’ve been meaning to post for a while, after seeing it on BoingBoing in December… a stop-motion film by Adam Rosenberg made with 265 pieces of laser cut paper. Enjoy!

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