18th
June
2002
“Faced with the continuing fallout of the Dot.com collapse and recession, the advertising industry’s interactive shops stuggled mightily throughout 2001. Many tried a variety of methods in an attempt to reduce costs and survive. Advertising Age’s annual analysis found that three of the most common strategies for coping were draconian cost-cutting, widespread layoffs and office closings.”
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18th
June
2002
“Before launching into an analysis of why today’s comics suck so badly, let’s be fair and get the opposite perspective. I called Lee Salem, editorial director of Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City — which handles ‘Cathy,’ ‘For Better or For Worse,’ and ‘Doonesbury,’ among others — and his rationale did have a certain conservative logic. ‘I think you are being too harsh,’ he said. ‘I’ve gotten letters from readers saying, ‘I don’t think ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is funny.’ Humor is in the eye of the beholder.”
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18th
June
2002
“The news has become a worrisome visitor in our lives over the last few months, and it arrives in an ever-increasing variety of forms. TV news, according to one recent survey, still reaches most households, but text-based news provides the supplementary information — on web sites, newspapers, email, palmtop bulletins and even zipper signs. A cursory glance at this particularly rich array of printed and transmitted words reveals a genre of media in flux — the typography of news. Typography was never more important to us, and yet never less noticed.”
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18th
June
2002
“Google has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley by helping millions of Internet users search the Web smarter and faster. But how does this wildly popular search engine find the new ideas that will keep its business moving forward? By ‘googling’ itself.”
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18th
June
2002
“The news has become a worrisome visitor in our lives over the last few months, and it arrives in an ever-increasing variety of forms. TV news, according to one recent survey, still reaches most households, but text-based news provides the supplementary information — on web sites, newspapers, email, palmtop bulletins and even zipper signs. A cursory glance at this particularly rich array of printed and transmitted words reveals a genre of media in flux — the typography of news. Typography was never more important to us, and yet never less noticed.”
posted in Typography | Permalink |
