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Bookish on McGraw-Hill
Client Case Study: McGraw-Hill Education In early September 2015, aka “back-to-school” time of year, our creative director received an out-of-the-blue request from an old publishing colleague requesting urgent assistance with book designs! It was a high-level manager at McGraw-Hill Education, who explained that — due to sudden, calamitous budget-shrinkage related to the ongoing devolution, evolution,…
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Impossibility and Risk
In discussing a difficult, pending project, with many real and imagined obstacles, via email (an imperfect tool) with a partner and colleague. Business and product names have been [obscured] in the text below, to protect the [innocent] and/or [neurotic]. 🙂 <I wrote> As the French writer Andre Maurois said, “the world progresses thanks to impossible things,…
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