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ers for high-school events, menus for local restaurants and a small flyer for the area Elks Club. They were all small A Letter from projects but enough to know that design and printing Jason Walker When SFR invited me to would always be a part of my write about why my compalife. ny, Monsoon Design helps Now, years later as support local journalism, I Monsoon Design produces jumped at the opportunity. print ads, billboards, posters Monsoon Design is a local and business collateral for advertising, design and digiour clients, the love and pastal marketing company that sion for all things printed still has been supporting Friends remains. And, so does the supof the Reporter for years. We port to our local news and culbelieve that only local journalture outlet. From Best of Santa ism can best represent and support Fe banners to weekly production the views and ideas that mean the most support, Monsoon Design is dedicated to to those who live here. If we lose our local the weekly publication and the responsibilmedia outlets and journalists, we lose our ity it has to inform, entertain and support local voice that makes us unique, creative the Santa Fe community. We truly love our and the world class destination that we all friends at the Reporter. love. While thinking about the concept of As times inevitably change, and techlosing such an incredible resource, our local nologies continue to make our life more efjournalists and the Santa Fe Reporter, I also ficient, we can’t lose the foundation of how realized that my personal love for the printthe information and content are gathered, ing process also drives me to support the lofact-checked and shared. We need our local cal publication that I so eagerly grab every journalists to do just that and they need our Wednesday morning on my way to work. support. For as long as I can remember, I have had As Wendall Philips, a lawyer in the 1800s a love for printed things. As a child, I would once said, “What gunpowder did for war collect comic books and spend hours going the printing press has done for the mind.” through each frame, not just for the story He was referring to how much the printing or to admire the incredible drawing styles process helps us learn and share informaof some of the classic comic artists of the tion. This concept still holds true, perhaps late ‘80s and early ‘90s, but to also try and more now than ever before. As the Santa Fe figure out how each frame was printed. This Reporter continues to bring local interests fascination with the printing process was and concerns to light, we need to support fueled even more in high school when the those who ask the tough questions, share the opportunity to help run the school’s offset information and keep the local voice local. printing press became available. The vinAs a local business owner and Santa Fean tage, two-color printing press that was dosince 2006, I ask you to please help supnated to the school years before I attended port our local journalists and publications. had never been used since the donation. My Become a Friend of the Reporter today and teacher, who was a retired creative direchelp keep this valuable Santa Fe institution tor from New York City, and a small group alive and thriving. of students in my class got the press operaJason Walker tional and we would produce monthly postMonsoon Design
This letter from Jason Walker is part of a series we are publishing about Friends of the Reporter, a new model for supporting our journalism mission. Visit sfreporter.com/friends, to make a onetime or recurring donation or via check at PO Box 4910, Santa Fe, NM 87502. The New Mexico Local News Fund will match up to $3,000 in donations received through the end of 2021. Our website and weekly print edition each Wednesday remain free to all readers.
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