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PrintUV 2009 Shines a Light in Las Vegas

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Monday, March 8 — It may be the just the trade-event formula that many in the industry have been clamoring for. A small but hand-picked audience. A low-cost exhibiting opportunity for the sponsors. A niche-specific program on a hot technological topic. Networking moments galore. And, a great location to make ...

NYC High School Cultivates Careers in Print

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

TanaSeybert’s Joseph Hoffman and Gil Celli (second and third from left) with some of their student interns from GCA. Preparing graduating students for jobs is the mission of career and technical education (CTE) programs at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts (GCA), the New York City public school system’s center ...

From 1947, A Recruiting Resource for 2009

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Those of us not old enough to have seen what the industry was like in the years immediately after World War II can get a fascinating glimpse in Printing, a vocational short subject released in 1947 for the “Your Life Work” series and preserved for posterity at YouTube. Full of scenes ...

Don Carli, a.k.a. “Sultan of Sustainability,” Holds Court at NYU

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Part Mr. Science, part Jeremiah, and part super policy wonk, Don Carli has spent the last 10 years spreading the message of sustainability throughout the printing industry in a one-man avalanche of wake-up facts and shake-up statistics. He brought his green-bannered crusade to New York University last night with a ...

In Boston, The Green Media Show Marks the Connection Between Sustainability and Success

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Taking care of business while taking care of the environment: that’s one way to define “sustainability,” the word that seems to be on everybody’s lips these days as a slogan for a wide-ranging mix of earth-friendly social goals and business strategies. Although there’s plenty of disagreement about exactly what sustainability ...

Let WhatTheyThink know what’s in your Graph Expo “wish list”

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Here's the text of a thread we've started in The Lounge at PrintPlanet. We'd love to get your input there or in responses to this post. Graph Expo 2008 is coming. What if you could give the exhibitors a “wish list” of the new products and solutions that you would most ...

Harrumph to Drupa: A Respectful Response

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

“...drupa is just an elaborate evasion for vendors who are utterly unable to explain their products satisfactorily or provide useful and relevant demos at home. Drupa also encourages hurried and half-baked decisions by users who are unable to gather their own information from other sources.” Yikes! I don’t consider myself an apologist ...

1996 Is Calling, and So Is Seybold San Francisco

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I don’t know if editors are more prone to pack-rat behavior than other people, but pack-rattitude has to be the reason that this editor still has in his possession an expo CD-ROM from the Seybold Seminars San Francisco Conference in 1996. It turned up by accident the other day in a ...

NYC-Based Graphic Scholarship Fund Presents $53,000 in Grants to 25 Students

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

It began six years ago in a borrowed conference room with a blank sheet of paper and a cash balance of zero. It culminated last night in the theatre of the Hearst Tower in New York City with the award of nearly $53,000 in scholarships to 25 college and college-bound ...

Design Students, Graphic Artists Can Vie for $400,000 Prize In “Engine Room” Competition Co-Sponsored by MTV and HP

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

A prize worth $400,000 and "a truly amazing, career launching opportunity" await the creative team that wins a digital design competition inspired by a new MTV series called Engine Room. Design for print is eligible for entry into the contest, which is accepting applications in the form of digital files ...