Check out Portfolio Center writing counsel Sam Harrison’s latest article, Are You Stretching or Stagnating?, in the August issue of HOW magazine. Go pick up an issue on the newsstand or, better yet, subscribe. In the meantime, here’s a link to the HOW blog, where they talk about the article and offer a downloadable pdf of the worksheet of creative exercises Sam suggests.

Sam is also included in the Creative Group’s new booklet on being creative in down times. For a pdf copy, go to his website, ZingZone.

The prizes just keep coming at Portfolio Center. And on the first day of a new quarter, I’m delighted to share this exciting news, yet another bar set for our incoming students, even as it is a notch in the belts of all students and alumni. For every individual Portfolio Center victory is also a collective victory, reflecting brightly on us all.

How Conference!!!!… Gets high marks this year… What an amazing conference… Austin, Texas and 108 degrees with no breeze… kicking off on Wednesday early evening as participants rolled in from all around the United States. There were over 60 sessions split up amongst 7 different tracks, ranging from Creativity, Design Disciplines, Business, Your Career, In-House, Technology & Production and the HOW Learning Center— and such amazing national speakers… and business consultants… and technical-driven participants who all came to share their talents, knowledge, and education, and to build relationships.

Portfolio Center was represented from the podiums of the meeting rooms of …more