This article was adapted from a transcript of mediabistro.com's seminar, "Design Writing for Designers," held July 18, 2006, in Los Angeles, led by UnBeige co-editor Alissa Walker.

Co-editor of the mediabistro.com design blog UnBeige, Alissa Walker has written for publications like Wired, Dwell, Metropolis, I.D., The Los Angeles Times, HOW, Dynamic Graphics and STEP Inside Design. How’d she get all those credits under her belt? “Not because I have some inside connections,” she says. “You just start with really small stories in the front of the outlet, and then you keep hammering away at editors ...

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