“Modern Mechanix is collecting, among other things, examples of pre-computer ASCII art, found in old issues of popular science magazines. So far, he has found articles on the typewriter art of mill worker Rosaire Belanger in the June 1939 issue of Popular Science (featuring an awesome picture of George Washington)…”
“Everyone wants to sell more papers. Everyone is doing everything they can and virtually no one is succeeding. Why? Because almost every effort is too narrowly focused. What the industry needs is an enterprise-wide solution, beginning with a focus on the goal of selling more newspapers. Here are the steps…”
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“When designers speak of ‘bad design’, they are generally referring to visual treatments which are displeasing, the haphazard output of a poorly trained designer, or at most, design solutions which simply do not work… If we accept that our general barometer for ‘bad’ is primarily superficial and personal in nature — as it is in the above examples — it leads us to consider that which truly is bad. I ask whether we should redefine bad design as: work that causes harm or helps support the efforts of clients who do damaging things.”
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