From time to time, we use this space to share some worthwhile information that was previously dispensed at one of the School of Visual Concepts’ professional development workshops. That would be next to impossible if we tried to recap all that went at SVC this summer in connection with TypeCon 2007. The school hosted 7 [...]

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While this is a little bit of a departure from the articles you’ll typically read here, we thought it was a story worth passing along. Back in April of 2006, Charles Johnson, a national book award winner, screenplay writer, journalist, novelist, and professor at the University of Washington, gave the keynote address to the U.W. [...]

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When your job requires you to come up with yet another carmel macchiato counter card, your tenth consecutive Medicare seminar postcard of the week, or one more “big fall sale” banner ad, it’s easy to get a little burnt out. Such is the life of the in-house designer or copywriter. The upsides of the job—employment [...]

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Almost all the articles on this blog summarize workshops we’ve held at SVC on design business practices, design, and creativity. But every now and then, something from the outside comes along that’s worth passing along. Case in point: Seth Godin frequently has interesting things to say about marketing, presenting, and the web. Now he’s aimed [...]

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