I bleed ink.

10 years ago digital meant 'paperless.' Email would replace memos. Online news would cause newspapers to fold. Back then, newspapers still used keylines and I was on a first name basis with most of the electronic pre-press staff. Print will always be a part of the mix for a balanced media presence. I love digital images and creating online content, but there's something satisfying about projects you can hold in your hands.

These samples of print projects I've worked on over the years include both old and new. Digital will never replace print. Then again, my hair has some gray in it now, so perhaps I'm biased.

You don't need to live in the Twin Cities to have effective and cleanly designed print projects completed on-time and on-budget. Just contact an experienced, albeit graying, creative specialist. I know several I can recommend.

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Computers make things too easy. Does anyone else remember taking things to the printer for masking? Remember when typesetting was an art? Computers do it all.

I remember arriving for a midnight press check only to discover the magenta plate was cracked and would need to be re-hung. Have you snoozed on the couch 'til 3am and endured breakfast from a machine so your client gets the color they expect? Good design can die on press.

As business brings print projects in-house, my advice is: get to know the pre-press staff. The people who output files to film can usually spot the one element in your layout that will kill the project on the press. Color traps that will leave large gaps; clipping paths too complicated to render correctly. Staring at 10,000 brochures with a truly ugly mistake is something you never want to do. The pre-press staff has saved my bacon more than once.