Author Archives: Bryn Mooth

About Bryn Mooth

Bryn is the former editor of HOW. Nowadays, she's an independent journalist and copywriter focused on food and healthy living, and she writes the Midwest-based food blog Writes4Food.com, which shares recipes and kitchen wisdom and explores regional foods and producers.

Getting the Most Out of HOW Design Live

You could say Karen Larson is a HOW Conference veteran: She’ll be attending her 12th conference this month. In fact, you’ll be seeing a lot of Karen, as she’ll be one of several “honorary staffer” helping the HOW team with … More

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HOW + PaperSpecs

HOW and PaperSpecs have partnered to bring you this valuable offer. The comprehensive information source to enable you to ‘spec’ the perfect paper for your project—every time. Already a member? Log in here. Stop wasting your time chasing paper specs. You’ll … More

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Sidelines: OMFGCO

Three Wieden + Kennedy alumni hang out a shingle as the Original Manufacturing Company (OMFGCO), making prints and T-shirts—and sharing ownership of a bar in their hometown—in addition to client work.
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Sidelines: Hero Design Studio

Beth Manos Brickey and Mark Brickey subdivide their time among several enterprises: a healthy client business creating concert and event posters and local organizations; a screen-printing shop; two online outlets for their greeting cards and fi ne-art prints; and a bricks-and-mortar store selling not only their own goods but also products
from Kidrobot and other designers.
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Sidelines: 2010love

Sisters Tiffany Handshoe Bachman and Leslie Handshoe Suter created 2010love as a way to encourage others to spread the love … this year and beyond. Read how their sideline gig generated some online buzz that’s helped their design studio.
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What About Crowdsourcing?

In HOW’s July issue, design industry leaders David Baker and Debbie Millman take on two sides of the crowdsourcing issue. When clients post projects for the masses, and not everyone gets paid, what does it mean for our business? 
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Sidelines: Font Designs by Brian Sooy

HOW’s May issue features a Sidelines column spotlighting designer Brian Sooy’s side gig: Altered Ego Fonts. Find out how his type design and his graphic design projects fuel each other and generate new clients.
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2010 International Best of Show: An Award Show

After much heated debate about more than a dozen contenders, HOW’s judges chose a design show call for entries as their top pick for this year’s International Design Awards’ Best of Show. More

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25 Great Quotes & Headlines from 25 Years of HOW

In celebration of HOW’s 25th year of publication in 2010, we’ve pored through the 160 or so issues on our bookshelves to find the 25 most memorable quotes, most amusing headlines and most interesting predictions about graphic design that we’ve published over the years.
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Business Advice: Developing Client Relationships

HOW editor Bryn Mooth and panelists Peleg Top, Steven Morris, Petrula Vrontikis, John Travis and Michael Hodgson discuss smart marketing and promotion strategies for designers. In this video excerpt, the panelists talk about how they develop lasting client relationships. More

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