type private industry greeting cards founded chicago illinois 1971 headquarters chicago illinois website www.prgreetings.com recycled paper greetings inc. rpg is a chicago based greeting card company founded by phil friedmann and mike keiser in 1971 . they became successful as one of the first greeting card companies to print their product on recycled paper and to give their artists recognition by putting their names on the cards . the designs created by sandra boynton became very well known especially her hippo birdie two ewes birthday card . these design styles were eventually adopted by the competition and are common today . artists like mary melcher cynthia bainton granddaughter of roland bainton the bjorkman brothers kathy davis dan reynolds david walker susan allen vicky barone and cartoonist cathy guisewite also produce or have produced greeting cards through rpg . the product development group of andrews mcmeel publishing also contributes significantly to the rpg offering through a line of original concepts called zero gravity and well known licenses like napoleon dynamite little miss sunshine and the close to home cartoon panel . external links edit recycled paper greetings inc. references edit michael kinsley 5 january 2009 . creative capitalism . simon and schuster . pp. 61 . isbn 978 1 84737 629 9 . this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a united states publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title recycled paper greetings & oldid 743337073 categories greeting cardscompanies based in chicagocompanies established in 1971united states manufacturing company stubsunited states publishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view