The Monarchy, King George and Origins of the 8.5x11" Format
“The rough dimensions of our office paper (8.5x11") evolved to accommodate handwriting and typewriters with mono-spaced fonts.” Say what?
What began harmlessly enough as a discussion on one of my LinkedIn groups (gotta love those groups), quickly went downhill. It even got political and downright patriotic. Folks calling out the monarchy and King George (How did that guy think he could possibly run a foreign country?). A founding member of the British Assn. of Paper Historians even chimed in. Wow.
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Sabine Lenz is the founder of PaperSpecs.com, the first online paper database and community specifically designed for paper specifiers.
Growing up in Germany, Sabine started her design career in Frankfurt, before moving to Australia and then the United States. She has worked on design projects ranging from corporate identities to major road shows and product launches. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, her list of clients included Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Bank, IBM and KPMG.
Seeing designers struggle worldwide to stay current with new papers and paper trends inspired Sabine to create PaperSpecs, an independent and comprehensive Web-based paper database and weekly e-newsletter. She is also a speaker on paper issues and the paper industry. Some refer to her lovingly as the "paper queen" who combines her passion for this wonderful substrate called paper with a hands-on approach to sharing her knowledge.
