During the last year I’ve moved three times at work, and each time I’ve tried to shed some of the sticky detritus of my career in publishing. It’s cube crap, unused in years, but somehow always avoiding the trash bin. Outdated manuals, mystery dongles, piles of spec guide binders, a small moose made of binder [...]
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Michael kindly offered to have me share a few things that I’ve learned in my years working in publishing. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share, and hopeful that a few of my “learned the hard way” lessons can make someone else’s job much easier.
I’ve been working, in various aspects, of the printing industry for [...]
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You never know where inspiration will come from. Yesterday it came to me in the form of a traffic jam slowing my ride to work. Sitting on the commuter bus, mired in “bumpa-ta-bumpa”, I stared out the window. Life on pause. I imagined the lake of gasoline that was fueling all these cars, puffing out [...]
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