Graph Expo 2008 — No Reason to Stay Home

Not necessarily planning to buy anything? That shouldn’t deter you. There are many reasons to hit McCormick Place South when the annual print show comes to town October 26-29. Far too many reasons to list, in fact, but if you need a few to motivate you, here’s a sampler:

|Forget the Passport: Back in late May/early June, the largest graphic arts exhibition in the world filled numerous halls in Germany, as it does every four years. But here’s the rub regarding the quadrennial print festival: U.S. printers weren’t there, or at least most weren’t in attendance. The fact that the U.S. dollar remains weak against the euro and that international airfares have skyrocketed are two good reasons not to travel overseas. But now we’re talking about Chicago, an exhibition hall where it doesn’t take a week or more to see everything.