CreativePro Conversations: The Early Days of Desktop Publishing with Lisa Wellman
Learn a little history of desktop publishing and the technology powering it from industry veteran Lisa Wellman.

In this CreativePro Conversation, Chuck Weger sits down for a conversation with Washington State Senator Lisa Wellman. “A senator?” I hear you asking. Though she currently chairs the Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee in the state senate, Wellman has been blazing trails since the beginning of the modern publishing era. After working as a public school teacher, she went to work for Apple as their head of commercial publishing. She certainly has seen quite the changes through her history in the industry and still has her finger on its pulse, sitting on the Energy, Environment & Technology Committee. Lisa and Chuck give us some insights into the foundations of the creative industries we are currently a part of.
CreativePro Conversations is a new video series which brings together creative professionals from a variety of fields to talk about design, communication, efficiency, learning, and how to get the work done.
Some of these conversations come from interviews presented at our online and live events and some are informal discussions among peers. But every CreativePro Conversation focuses on one thing: how to help organizations and individuals thrive, by design.
This article was last modified on August 29, 2025
This article was first published on November 11, 2022