Technology  October 1, 1996

Love of craft, work merge for ex-IBMer

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NIWOT — In Niwot, if you follow the white picket fence alongside Rev. Taylor’s, there’s a print shop tucked away that makes one think of Benjamin Franklin. The proprietor of this noble business is a corporate renegade of sorts, a former IBMer who took the best of his detailed high-tech computer knowledge, combined his left brain, his right brain and his heart and opened a letterpress printing business last winter.

Brian Allen now lives the life others still trapped in the corporate maze find themselves fantasizing about while madly racing to their next appointment or meeting.

Allen doesn’t race anymore; he ambles…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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