Closing Remarks

Joseph Makkos is CEO of Intelligent Archives L3C, a Louisiana based information, content and technology company that advances research and enhances historic archives through AI. As Founder and Curator of NOLA DNA he developed a business that is dedicated to the preservation of historic printed materials dating back to the 19th century. As a designer he is commissioned to perform all parts of custom design projects that incorporate multi-process print production (historic and modern) to create artful editions. Using these resources he actively runs a design studio in New Orleans that focuses on artful print production and independent book publishing. While in another capacity he is an archivist who manages a rare collection of some 30,000 historic New Orleans newspapers dating from 1880s-1929. He has written for The Atlantic, The New Orleans Advocate, Bayou Brief, & Preservation In Print Magazine, has collaborated on pieces with NOLA.COM | The Times-Picayune, WWNO & NPR, and has been featured in AP News, The Columbia Journalism Review, and more.