This made me die a little on the inside
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plonqWhat the fuck is this shit?
I can live with the vomitous spew of colours and point sizes. I can turn a blind eye to the abuse of exclamation marks that happens further down in the message (because this point is very important!!!!!!!!!!)
The part that burns like a nitric acid enema is where they blew up a bit-mapped font. Did it not occur to this person that the font looked a little... blocky?
There are two things missing from this email that I am sure will appear in follow-up messages later: Comic Sans, and pictures which they have squished down to a 1:3 ratio to make them fit on the page.
I walked up on one of our Bas a couple of years ago while he was working on a promotion poster for the Health and Safety Committee. The first thing that jumped out at me on his screen was a picture at the top of the poster which he had shrunk in Word to make it fit. I pointed at the picture and said, "What the hell is that?" He couldn't see what was wrong with the picture, so I said, "Well, other than the fact that it looks like you are crushing everybody under about 12 times gravity, the corporate logo behind them is supposed to be round, not an oval." He insisted that the picture was good enough, and if he had not noticed the problems, nobody else would.
Later when I was wandering by I noticed that he had fixed the picture. He admitted that once I had pointed it out to him that the picture was squashed, he couldn't un-see it again, and it was distracting him from working on there rest of the poster. Score 1 for the good guys.
I can live with the vomitous spew of colours and point sizes. I can turn a blind eye to the abuse of exclamation marks that happens further down in the message (because this point is very important!!!!!!!!!!)
The part that burns like a nitric acid enema is where they blew up a bit-mapped font. Did it not occur to this person that the font looked a little... blocky?
There are two things missing from this email that I am sure will appear in follow-up messages later: Comic Sans, and pictures which they have squished down to a 1:3 ratio to make them fit on the page.
I walked up on one of our Bas a couple of years ago while he was working on a promotion poster for the Health and Safety Committee. The first thing that jumped out at me on his screen was a picture at the top of the poster which he had shrunk in Word to make it fit. I pointed at the picture and said, "What the hell is that?" He couldn't see what was wrong with the picture, so I said, "Well, other than the fact that it looks like you are crushing everybody under about 12 times gravity, the corporate logo behind them is supposed to be round, not an oval." He insisted that the picture was good enough, and if he had not noticed the problems, nobody else would.
Later when I was wandering by I noticed that he had fixed the picture. He admitted that once I had pointed it out to him that the picture was squashed, he couldn't un-see it again, and it was distracting him from working on there rest of the poster. Score 1 for the good guys.
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Date: 2010-09-30 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 07:30 pm (UTC)Did they use a different font size for each word in the yellow line??
Ugh...
So glad they have to pass things through the corporate publications people here so our CS week posters all look like every other poster we have.
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Date: 2010-09-30 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-01 03:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-30 09:25 pm (UTC)ransom note: random fonts are fine
other designs: random fonts are not so good.
Looks like this "designer" missed that part of design 101.
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Date: 2010-10-01 03:18 am (UTC)I am so stealing this.
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Date: 2010-09-30 11:18 pm (UTC)Though... the 8-bit font could be intentional.
Sorry... I mean....
Though... the 8-bit font could be intentional.
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Date: 2010-10-01 03:17 am (UTC)One time they asked him to help design a poster for a Safety Blitz (which are regular, short, single-topic monthly safety meetings). The topic of the meeting in question was on handling outside threats in the work environment. He came up with a beautiful, crisp, elegant design and took it back to the committee.
Nope, nope, nope. Needs bombs and terrorists and fires and explosions and stuff. After a couple of revisions and rejections, he finally said, "If I add anything else to this poster it will be too cluttered to convey any kind of meaningful message." Eventually he handed it back to them to finish.
The final product was hideous. I wish I had taken in my camera to get a shot of his product versus their final product. It's like the designer had taken every idea that came to mind, jammed it up her ass and then bent over and let loose on the poster. It was easily one of the ugliest posters I have ever seen in my life.
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Date: 2010-10-01 09:53 am (UTC)slowly.
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Date: 2010-10-01 11:14 am (UTC)