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WIRED Magazine co-founder Montana State University graduate Barbara Kuhr

MSU graduate Barbara Kuhr was a founding designer of the groundbreaking magazine WIRED http://www.wired.com/ that transformed the way we look at technology

In 1984, Barbara Kuhr and her partner, John Plunkett, quit their jobs at New York City design firms to take a sabbatical in Europe.

Kuhr, a Great Falls native who earned a degree from Montana State, and Plunkett enrolled at the Alliance Française to learn French. Then, they rented a car and traveled around the continent for six months. Eventually they settled in Paris.

Some of their colleagues and friends in New York were skeptical about their decision to abandon good jobs for the unknown, but "we were open to new challenges, new ways of doing things," Kuhr said.

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/mountainsandminds/article.php?article=11486&origin=news

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