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This week PaperSpecsGallery.com calls attention to a promotional piece from Corinne Grassini, a California-born fashion designer and the founder of Society for Rational Dress.

CTI Paper USA's new Glama KRAFT papers for brand packaging and commercial/specialty printing, features a proprietary treatment that enables six-color-plus sheetfed and heat-set web offset printing, as well as production-rated laser/toner printing.

This week, PaperSpecsGallery.com features Wayward Arts magazine's seventh issue, Napkinisms. The printed, embossed and folded squares pay witty homage to the many romantic overtures, great inventions, clever marketing campaigns, and inspiring doodles birthed on cocktail napkins.

Every three years, Clampitt Paper sponsors a special competition for designers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. PaperSpecsGallery.com shows the winning Paper Trail Wine Label.

In an unlikely ménage of capitalism, environmentalism, and rock 'n' roll, on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and Steve Liesman of CNBC were jamming with Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the Rolling Stones, environmentalist, tree farmer.

The paper industry, it seems, has taken a Twainesque position that reports of paper’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Indeed, paper is doing quite well.

Paper comprises one of the most stratified and clearly defined markets in the world. In addition to paper used for printed matter, pulp—the major ingredient—is a primary component in everything from tissue, to paperboard, to newsprint, to containerboard, to various commodities such as coated and non-coated free sheets.

In relative terms, most paper segments enjoyed a strong year in 2013.

CTI Paper USA has added new packaging on all digital-size and cut-size ream wrap and cartons across its brand portfolio, including Kromekote, Aspire Petallics, Glama Natural and Currency.

Actor Woody Harrelson is planning to raise money for Prairie Paper Ventures, a private company he started 15 years back.

Prairie Paper makes its paper using a different mix of material from normal: 80 percent of the inputs come from wheat straw and the rest from recycled wood fibre. The paper is known as Step Forward Paper. It’s available on Amazon US, and at Staples, Lyreco and Basics.

In a posting on its website, “Out of the Furnace” star Harrelson, who is holding up a box of paper, said “it’s good for the forests, it’s good for the farmers and it’s

This self-promotional piece from GLS Cos. in Brooklyn Park, MN, contains all the bells and whistles, literally, to create a memorable and engaging experience.

This week, PaperSpecsGallery.com features a very elegant invitation that was designed for the grand opening of Herringbone, the happening eatery of former Top Chefs Baumgarten and Malarkey in La Jolla, CA.