Tear Down Ancient Barriers and Talk to Your Creatives

The student work in front of me was stunning. The typography, the layout, the choice of images—even the papers they picked were, shall I say, refreshing. No all white, all gloss coated all the way for these young designers (no offense to white gloss papers).

“You must talk to your students about paper a lot,” I remarked to the dean. “Not really,” he replied. “I just tell them: do not spec shiny paper.”