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New Industry Education Resource Launched

Friday, September 11th, 2009

In 1996 Mark Sanders of Virginia Tech submitted a grant proposel to the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF) outlining a new Website that would "support and enhance the work of graphic communication teachers and students throughout the US and the world." A short time later the GRAPHIC COMM CENTRAL (GCC) ...

Educating Customers – How are you doing it?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Quad/Graphics' customer education efforts are highlighted in the current issue of Inc. Magazine (p.90) under the 30 classic examples of innovation from Inc. Inc cites Quad/Graphics' CAMP/Quad client education program which the company started in 1980. Inc states: Meet the press Quad/Graphics is the world's largest privately held printing company, in ...

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 ...

Don’t Skimp on Training – What Do You Think?

Friday, January 30th, 2009

My article today on WhatTheyThink about the importance of investing in training in these tough times really struck a chord with our readers. I have gotten more mail on this article than I usually get, ranging from other resources that are available (see below) to those wondering why employers ...

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 ...

EDSF Academic Research Grants

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Each year the Electronic Document Systems Foundation sponsors research grants to give students an opportunity to conduct research on subjects of interest to the document management and graphic communications industry. Students work in collaboration with professors and EDSF-appointed mentors. If you are interested in the EDSF Research Grant Program visit the ...

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 ...