Graphic Communication Activities Handbook

Vincent Blyden is a presswork and bindery professor at Florida A&M University, where he has taught for the past 23 years. He teaches courses in graphic arts introductory, presswork, camerawork, book production stripping, platemaking, continuous tone photography and digital prepress. He was previously an offset press operator with Hewlett Packard Medical Electronics Division in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1974 until 1975, The St. Petersburg Times as a letterpress proofer in 1972 and with the Home Journal newspaper in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in from 1967 until 1971, where he operated the newsprint web offset press. Blyden also has experience in layout, typesetting, paste-up, camera work, desktop publishing, stripping, and platemaking. He was a staff photographer for the Home Journal newspaper in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Blyden served as a national judge in the 1996 Flexographic best of Show Awards in Ronkonkoma, New York. The show featured prints from 50 states as well as Canada, Mexico, Japan and England. Blyden earned a B.S. in graphic arts technology and a M. S. in vocational education, both from Florida A&M University. He is a member of GATF, Epsilon Pa Tau Fraternity, The Flexographic Technical Foundation, the Gravure Association of American and Phi Delta Kappa, a professional education fraternity.Blyden is the author of Book Design and Manufacture. The book was published by the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation in 1987.Vincent Alfredo Blyden is the author of 'Graphic Communication Activities Handbook', published 2005 under ISBN 9781419612220 and ISBN 1419612220.