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How Letterpress Printing Came Back From The Dead

by Glenn Fleishman Adrian Harrison For designers used to wielding a mouse, a steamroller might seem excessive. Yet every summer in Seattle, teams from Starbucks, Facebook, Amazon, Oracle, and other local firms and artists vie to steamroll a winning poster. They spend dozens of hours carving large sheets of linoleum to be placed on asphalt, covered

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To Avoid Sexual Harassers, Start with Hiring Process

With sexual harassment and other bullying behaviors receiving more attention, and with lawsuits increasing, employers have been busy updating or creating anti-harassment policies and training their employees. Besides the fallout from having sexual harassment occur in your workplace, employers may be targeted in “negligent hiring” charges if victims of on-the-job harassment file suit. That’s why

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Does Your Business Have to Comply with GDPR?

On May 25, 2018, a major rules change that impacts millions of businesses took effect. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant change to European data security standards in two decades. While the regulation has a direct impact on enterprises located or doing business directly in EU countries, it can

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Managing Your Corporate Vehicle Exposure

AUTOMOBILES ARE one of the most significant exposures to loss a company can face. To ensure that you effectively manage your company’s vehicle liability and risk exposure, you need to have an effective risk management strategy. Without one, the consequences to your company’s bottom line can be severe. With one, you can reduce your total

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Leading a Team to Boosted Performance

By: Amanda Aszman Whether you’re a creative leader in an in-house environment or at a design firm, or are just interested in moving into a leadership role in the future, today’s sessions at HOW Design Live were chock full of amazing, actionable advice to help you with leading a team toward boosted performance. How to Lead a Team

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How Packaging Translation Can Make or Break Your Company

By: Rae Steinbach When deciding what kind of text to include on a product’s packaging, companies must take several factors into account. Laws, branding goals, and even simple factors like deadlines all play a role. If a company wants to export a product to a foreign market, it must ensure the packaging text is translated

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Preventing Heat Illness as Temperatures Soar

With temperatures rising, employers with outdoor workers need to take steps to protect them from heat illness. California employers need to be especially mindful as Cal/OSHA has workplace safety regulations governing the prevention of heat illness. The heat illness standard came into effect about seven years ago as the number of deaths due to heat

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Preventing Heat Illness as Temperatures Soar

With temperatures rising, employers with outdoor workers need to take steps to protect them from heat illness. California employers need to be especially mindful as Cal/OSHA has workplace safety regulations governing the prevention of heat illness. The heat illness standard came into effect about seven years ago as the number of deaths due to heat

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6 Tips for Choosing the Right Typography for your Poster

By Maria Papaefstathiou The average person thinks about design and doesn’t recognise the amount of work that goes into creating a unique and engaging piece. After all, how hard is it to choose a few interesting images or to pick a suitable font for a poster or flyer, right? Most of the work is done

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What on Earth Is Vpaper?

By Don Piontek Every week, I dutifully scour my sources and the internet for truly new finishing developments and systems to present to you. Sometimes I succeed, and sometimes not, but last week was a winner. I received a LinkedIn press release alert on something called “Vpaper”. My first response being “what?” But then I saw

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