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Industry Analysis: The Corrupt Partnership Between Advertising Agencies and Graphic Arts Businesses

Features: Written by Jeremy Smith on August 25, 2004

When clients contract for print ads, millions of dollars are at stake for both the advertising agency creating the materials and for the print house producing the deliverables. A cozy relationship can develop between the two suppliers, with the client footing the bill for extravagant excesses. Can this be stopped?

When Typographers Were Kings

Features: Written by Jeremy Smith on December 15, 2002

Digital technologies made "font" a household word, but the art of typography may have suffered for it. At least that's the opinion of one industry watcher, who recalls an era when typographers were indispensable to the design and production process.