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		<title>The Ongoing Blog Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us, by now, either visit, write or know of at least one blog. Blogs fill the void between websites and social networking by providing an open forum for anyone and everyone to discuss just about any topic that interests them. And that&#8217;s how they started &#8211; as open forums for the expression of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=123&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<title>Nuk-Nuks and Modern Art: An Examination of Comfort</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a monumental occasion. At 6:04pm, CST, my 2.25-year-old daughter willingly parted with ALL of her Nuk-Nuks (a brand of pacifier). In ceremonial fashion, she &#8220;fed&#8221; them to the dinosaur at her favorite playground (author&#8217;s note: the &#8220;dinosaur&#8221; is actually a large dragon-like structure that snakes its way around a local playground.) For a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=110&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Gutenberg Rolling in his Grave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology is an amazing thing. I think about it on a daily basis, and how many of these advancements we take for granted. For instance, a trip from New York to Los Angeles in 1850 would take MONTHS, not hours, to accomplish. Yet every single day hundreds of people make that exact trip via the wonder of air travel, and only in a matter of hours. Or how about a letter, traveling by horseback, in 1850 - you think the USPS changed a few things? 

Then there's the year 1438, one year before Johannes Gutenberg printed the world's first EVER mass-produced book, The Gutenberg Bible. Well, let me clarify...he invented movable type (an early version of the printing press,) which facilitated the production of multiple copies of the same manuscript. Before his creation, only the wealthiest could afford actual books, and most people were illiterate. Communication was done verbally, and those who could read, and afford to own books, were the writers of modern history. That's power.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=83&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designers Make Terrible Road Warriors</title>
		<link>http://deslgroup.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/designers-make-terrible-business-travelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched Up In The Air last night, and this morning I find myself replaying scenes from that movie in my head as I sit on a plane to Boston for a business trip. I am also remembering my Dad, who was a travelling salesman for most of his life, and had plenty of his own experiences to share from his air travels. He was a pro, just like Clooney.

The life of a travelling businessman, or woman, is not for everyone. In fact, I believe it takes a rare breed of person to endure the rigors of such a lifestyle. But instead of observing that type of personality, I'd rather apply it to what I know, and talk about designers as business travelers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=77&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Launching an Ad Agency: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://deslgroup.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/launching-an-ad-agency-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea to document the experience of starting my own advertising agency was my wife's; and I was hesitant at first. I tend to keep that kind of information to myself. However, I like to think of myself as a modern man…I can share my feelings, right?! So here we go...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=75&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Snow: An Exercise in Whitespace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, February 11, 2010 marked a historic day in Dallas / Fort Worth – it was the snowiest day in recorded history for our part of North Texas. I have been a resident of Dallas for just about my entire life, and although we’ve had our share of winter weather, I can’t remember a snowfall like this. By that, I mean the fluffy, crunchy, fresh powder type of snow that I have only experienced in the mountains of New Mexico and Colorado on annual family ski trips. We Texans usually receive sleet and freezing rain, or the big fat wet snow that either melts within a day or turns to straight ice overnight.

My point of mentioning that fact is precisely why I write this article. Ice and sleet don’t tend to inspire the creative mind. It messes up traffic, crashes cars, and closes schools, but it doesn’t inspire. This…this 12.5 inches of crunchy, fluffy, marshmallowy white snow that we are experiencing…takes me on a dorky artistic adventure that I just have to share.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deslgroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11582430&amp;post=71&amp;subd=deslgroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Origins of The DesL Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The origins of the The DesL Group began eleven years ago on the ground floor of The University of Texas at Austin’s Art building, in a small computer design lab affectionately nicknamed “The DesL” by students and faculty of the School of Fine Arts Design department. It was there that I officially began my path to a BFA in design degree, and a now eight-year professional career as a designer. It was also there that, on day one of the design program, I answered a professor’s lofty question “Why are you in this program?” by saying: my goal is, and has always been, to receive a design degree, find a professional design job, and eventually open my own shop.
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