Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Hal Morrow, Chief Marketing Officer of GMC Software Technology lost his battle with cancer on Friday. At WhatTheyThink.com Elizabeth Gooding remembers Hal's years of industry leadership. Following cremation, a celebration of Hal’s life will be held on Wednesday September 3, 2008 at 6:00pm in the Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium, 15 ...Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
What? No one remembers The Man From UNCLE? Anyway, Day 3 (Day 1 here and Day 2 here) of the Creative Freelancer Conference began with another session of Walkies...this time I was dressed appropriately, but it was apparently decided to make it a 10K, so the group was up and gone ...Monday, September 1st, 2008
Day 1 here. I confess: I live in fear of the honor bar in my hotel room. The Hyatt Regency in Chicago has one of those pressure-sensitive honor bars where if the platen detects that the weight of a snack or drink item has been removed, it registers as a purchase. ...Friday, August 29th, 2008
Greetings from Chicago and the Creative Freelancer Conference, sponsored by HOW magazine and Marketing Mentor. This is a three-day business conference for what the show organizers call “solopreneurs”—that is, freelance designers, writers, photographers, and others in the graphic arts. Wednesday afternoon, in the bowels of the Hyatt Regency—far from the reach ...Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Inc. Magazine has released its list of the 5,000 fastest growing private companies in America. By my count 34 companies on the list are in the graphic communication industry. No. 60 Salt Lake Mailing & Printing. The company provides direct mail services. http://www.saltlakemailing.com/ No. 418 Abbott's Custom Printing. The Las Vegas-based printer ...Monday, August 25th, 2008
"Montgomery Ward" - does that name ring a bell? When we were kids - way back when - we called it the "Monkey Ward" catalog... This week's DMNews reported on a number of acquisitions in the catalog industry that triggered some thoughts for me, some of them a bit nostalgic. Montgomery ...Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The Open Publishing Lab at RIT's School of Print Media was selected to receive a HP Labs Innovation Award. RIT was chosen from more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries HP received. According to HP Labs, "Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing ...Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has the story on continued industry consolidation with coverage of Minneapolis-based Bolger buying the assets of bankrupt Minneapolis-based Diversified Graphics. In 2005 Diversified Graphics was bought out by its senior management team and a private-equity firm. Bolger had the winning bid at $10 million for the Diversified Graphics ...Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Last Sunday’s New York Times had an interesting feature on reading that I think you all should...well, read. The basic question was: “online, are you really reading?” to which my initial response was, well, since I had read the article online, did I then actually read it at all? The article was ...Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
The June 2008 issue of GD USA included its annual print design survey. The message was that "print endures, despite the obvious allure of digital media, because it remains supremely effective at creating relationships between communicator and audience, between company and customer. that is the central message of our 45th ...
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