Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Last week, we posted about the presentation ceremony by the Graphic Communication Scholarship Award and Career Advancement Foundation at Hearst Tower in New York City. Here, as promised, are the video interviews. The first is with Guy Gleysteen, senior vice president, production, Time, Inc., the recipient of the Foundation's 2009 ...Friday, June 26th, 2009
Gordon Pritchard has put together a great compilation called “Printing and the Movies” at his excellent blog, Quality in Print. The movies seldom make much reference to printing, but Gordo, a cinephile as well as a regular contributor at the PrintPlanet forums, captures some the craft’s most notable moments on ...Thursday, June 25th, 2009
With the encouragement to students that “if I can do it, you can do it,” Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi accepted the Prism Award for Distinguished Leadership during a packed luncheon at Gotham Hall in Manhattan on June 24. Joshi is executive vice president of the Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) of HP, ...Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Twenty-five college and college-bound students in New York City will find the high cost of higher education a bit easier to bear thanks to the cash grants they received on June 22 from the Graphic Communications Scholarship Award and Career Advancement Foundation. The presentation ceremony at the Hearst Tower in Manhattan ...Monday, June 22nd, 2009
The good news, if it is good news, is that the printing industry is at the bottom of the list, but it’s dodgy company to be in: the 10 types of private businesses that are most likely to file for bankruptcy in the coming months. The list was compiled by Sageworks, ...Friday, June 19th, 2009
If you use credit cards to help cover the everyday expenses of running your small business, you’re not alone. The National Small Business Association says that nearly 60% of America's small firms rely on plastic as a quick and convenient source of operating capital. And if using your cards for business ...Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
CHICAGO – About 50 print industry editors and analysts have spent the last two days here taking in a battery of presentations by 12 vendors that will exhibit at Print 09 (Sept. 11-16). "Media Days," the Graphic Arts Show Company's collective name for the program of editorial briefings that it ...Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
There’s still time for printers to enter one of the industry’s longest-running and most arts prestigious graphic arts competitions: IAPHC’s International Gallery of Excellence. Entries will be accepted until June 30 for the 2009 edition of the event, which IAPHC—the coordinating organization for Clubs of Printing House Craftsmen around the ...Monday, June 15th, 2009
This nicely done photomontage captures scenes from the 2009 SkillsUSA Georgia training and competition in graphic communications and advertising design, an event sponsored by the Printing & Imaging Association of Georgia (PIAG). It also earned a $100 cash prize for its producer, William Anthony, a high school student named the ...Friday, June 12th, 2009
Let’s all root for Amela Mujkic, a Ferris State University (FSU) senior who will represent the U.S. in Printing Technology at the biannual WorldSkills competition in Calgary, Alberta, in September. It’s the first time ever that a student from the U.S. will compete in printing at the international level. Mujkic, who ...
