How Technology Changed Everything— and Nothing—for Walsh Design By Miriam Walsh Lisco, Principal, Walsh Design Walsh Design, a Pacific Northwest graphic design and visual branding firm founded by the late and legendary designer Frederick Walsh, opened its doors in 1962. As we look to celebrate our 50th year in 2012, we often get asked how we have stayed in business [...]

I find it interesting that when someone asks me what I do for a living and I tell them that I’m in the media manufacturing business, they seem to be sad for me, and some, I think, even feel sorry for me. The prevailing attitude about physical media is that the technology is all but dead, gone the way of [...]

I have been working with film and video production in one way or another since 1974. Two partners (Gerry Cook and Chris Venne) and I spent many years making documentaries and television commercials in Spokane in the mid- to late-‘70s. We would work in small format (1/2” open reel) video and 35mm film (for the television commercials). Around 1981 we [...]

Thirty years of Media Inc.! Wow, it’s been a while. As I recall, the magazine began life as POV. I began working in film in Seattle in 1974, so I had 6-plus years of experience by 1981! There are only a handful of us working today who were working in Washington back then. Off the top of my head, Conrad [...]

As society and technology change, so does graphic design. In 1981, MTV launched onto our TVs and into our psyche with round-the-clock music videos that made the music we loved more visual. At that same moment, the introduction of computers into our studio sparked a revolution that incited the design team to push their drawing boards aside and begin processing [...]

Congratulations to Media Inc. on your 30th anniversary! Looking back over the years, it goes without saying that a lot has changed in the creative field. In the early 1980s, creative professionals worked with typewriters and paste-up boards—and there was no such thing as the Internet. The first mobile phones were just appearing, and they were almost as bulky as [...]