Los Angeles InDesign User Group

Alan Bell

Alan Bell is president of BLK Publishing Company, Inc., a graphic design and custom publishing firm whose clients are principally non-profit and community-based organizations. For ten years, he was production manager at Hi-Speed Typesetting, a Los Angeles-based company whose tenure ran from hot metal Linotypes to the early days of phototypsetting. In the ’70s he was publisher of a weekly newspaper in New York and in the ’90s a monthly magazine Los Angeles. For 11 years, Bell was the film critic at the Los Angeles Sentinel. He holds degrees from UCLA and the University of the State of New York.

DeShawn Burton

DeShawn Burton is currently the Vice President at the Award winning full-service company, Clear Image Printing in Glendale, CA. In this position, he develops methods and procedures to minimize cost while providing the highest level of quality assurance across various media from hand-held Digital Content to Super Scalar Outdoor Displays. With a background in graphic arts, marketing, programming, database management and engineering, he is a specialist in converting complex process and information into simplified steps and presentable material. Burton studied at the University of California, San Diego.