AUTUMN//WINTER 2017 9 NEWS Register at www.stationerymatters.news to receive our biweekly industry e-newsletter Indie boutique Meticulous Ink celebrates 7th birthday The doors to Meticulous Ink’s first small shop opened in Bath in October 2010. Within four months, the stationery design and print company acquired its first printing press.The business grew and they needed a separate space for their enormous 1960s Heidelberg Windmill presses: the new premises on Walcot Street housed both the shop and print works in one building, and is where Meticulous Ink continues to reside and thrive. To celebrate the company’s seven years of designing and printing fine stationery, owner Athena Cauley-Yu comments: “we will be open all day on Saturday 21st October for customers to peruse the machines close up, plus we’ll be having some print demonstrations to show the machines at work.All are welcome to visit.” www.meticulousink.com London Calling Remember to pencil in next year’s London Stationery Show, which takes place at the Business Design Centre 24-25 April 2018.The London Stationery Show is the place to visit to see the widest variety and the cutting edge of stationery design. You will always find something new. The 2018 show will feature a great speaker programme, a craft workshop, and the most comprehensive selection of paper and writing instrument suppliers anywhere in the UK, all under one roof. So if you buy or sell stationery, save the date now! 50 years of Chronicle Books Born in San Francisco’s Summer of Love in 1967, Chronicle Books has grown from a regional press into a leading international publisher of books and gift formats. Stationery, journals, and other non-book items first became part of the Chronicle Books brand in 1993 and will celebrate its 25 year anniversary next year. Tyrrell Mahoney, president of Chronicle Books, said:“We’ve challenged ourselves to sell our books around the globe, in bookstores, museum shops, and gift stores large and small, from specialty stores to farm stands, wineries, toy stores, and even car washes.We love when people tell us they see our books everywhere.” Many of the celebrations took place in the publisher’s home city, including an exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book and a Chronicle Books Read Aloud Day at all the public library branches. www.abramsandchronicle.co.uk Chronicle Books staff 2017.Photo:Ryan Cunningham Left,Zoë Ross,printer andAthena Cauley-Yu,owner