A cofounder of the InDesignSecrets Web site and InDesign Magazine, and cohosts a podcast by the same name.
Blatner also co-hosts CreativePro Week, a week-long set of conferences for creative professionals.
He lives outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Debbie Carlson, and two sons.
His father is American psychiatric pioneer Adam Blatner and his mother is Barbara Blatner-Fikes.
In the late 1980s, Blatner was a member of the Palo Alto theatrical improvisation troupe Creative Mayhem, which had also included director Kirk Wise and alternative comedy performer Jimmy Gunn.