Bennett and I got back last Tuesday after an exhilerating and exhausting weekend at the HOW Conference. In about three days we wrote full reviews of 19 different sessions that we attended. We know that is alot to sort through, so here are some of the highlights:

Steven Heller, William Drenttel, Steve Rhodes, Armin Vit, and Patric King talk about the influence of blogs on the design community.

Abbott Miller and DJ Stout talk with the editors/art directors of HOW and Print about the redesign of their magazines.

Brian Collins of Ogilvy talks about the spiritual side of branding.

There are some helpful notes on hand lettering from Ken Barber’s session.

Jeff Kleinsmith talks about how he got the dream job of being art director for Sub Pop records.

Petrula Vrontikis preview for her session consisted of some great career tips even if you weren’t going to the conference.

Brendan Dawes preview was just plain inspirational and a nice piece on its own.

Marshall Arisman preview consisted of short hand notes for his session. This is a rare look into how someone like Marshall prepares for a lecture.

Jakob Trolback preview is actually his unedited session proposal to HOW. This was also an interesting side of the HOW Conference that we don’t normally see.

In the Matt Mattus review Bennett shares some notes on where Matt looks for inspiration and trends (i.e. Japan, contemporary art …).