Today, graphic design is conformist, content to satisfy templates dictated by marketing experts, and the worst accomplices of this painful trend are graphic designers themselves. Long live Kenneth Hiebert. Long live postmodernist graphic design.

Adobe InDesign still has a bug that prevents graphic effects from being created with simple stylistic adjustments. If they haven't fixed it by now, they never will, because attention to graphic detail is dying. The meticulous care that existed in the '80s and '90s no longer exists.

This way, one can better understand the importance of Paragraph Styles and the possible combinations between them regarding spacing above and below, and the various possible offsets. Some inconsistencies are due to class dynamics. What mattered was managing the way the TOC was generated and set up.

honestly being a consultant is such an inoculation against bs

most of my projects died on the vine for stupid internal reasons only. MOST of them

it really teaches you that nearly all corporate culture is bs, and that it’s a miracle anything works

What about a very noticeable thing: the ever-more-common habit of listening to the phone without headphones in public spaces and transport? It kills me.

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Are you noticing in your field a leveling down of all quality?