While most of the posts here are about business practices, we don’t often stop to examine the most important practice of all: being decent human beings. The other day, we came across these wonderful words from Curtis Clarkson, the editor of CMYK, the magazine for aspiring design and advertising professionals. We couldn’t have put it [...]

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The School of Visual Concepts’ 7th Annual Wayzgoose, celebrating the time-honored art of letterpress printing, will reappear Saturday, August 23 from 1 to 6 pm at SVC’s Seattle location. For those who aren’t familiar with a Wayzgoose, it’s a tradition in the letterpress world that dates back to the 17th Century, when printers would serve [...]

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You’ll find plenty of articles on this site about how to improve the profitability of your design or marketing practice, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t also suggest that you should give away a certain amount of your time and creative genius each year to worthy causes. In the best circumstances, you get a [...]

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One of our favorite workshop leaders at SVC is Ted Leonhardt. He not only built a small design firm into a large one, but he also had the opportunity to serve as executive creative director for the entire Fitch network of design shops around the world. Late last year Ted led a workshop at SVC [...]

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