Proclivities wrote:
 

ahh. many years spent cutting amberlith. the good ol' days of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Sign guys are not to be trusted. They are incapable of solving any problem and will, in fact, make any problem worse. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

 haresfur wrote:
  

 
Can't tell Copy anything.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
You graphic designers still need to pay attention to the writing composition

 Proclivities wrote:
 

It's their Art and Photography Buyer's Guide issue. The 2nd one they've done. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
I hadn't heard that term before either; I assume it meant clip-art.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Not sure I've heard the term "second art" before. edit  I was trying to make it a term of commercial art. Ah, nevermind.

$1 in 1953 = about $10 now, so about the same as a copy of Comm Arts.

Art Director & Studio News - Illustrated by Amundsen - February 1953

On March 16 HBO will premiere David Simon’s mini-series of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America. In this alternate history the fascist-leaning America First isolationists field aviator-hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh for president against Franklin D. Roosevelt. In today’s political era this fiction is all too timely. (...)

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Neutron capture is my favourite atomic process

Classic Pelican book covers – in pictures
Bibliophiles and retro design fans will love the Pelican Project, an online time capsule of book covers from the (now defunct) educational arm of Penguin books. Lovingly curated by editor and journalist Jonathan Bell from his personal collection of Pelican books, the huge online gallery spans the decades from the 1930s to Pelican's final publication in the 80s. Delve into the collection and see for yourself the evolution from formulaic to fantastique at thingsmagazine.net.

Hell vet ica - The Veterinarian that takes care of Cerberus’s hiccups.  

Helvetica’s evil twin, Hellvetica, will haunt your nightmares

“We wanted people to see this in the wild and be like, ‘What the HELL is wrong with my computer?'” says the typeface’s creator, Matthew Woodward.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

I predicted this would become ubiquitous so I never bothered to get it; I haven't seen it anywhere since, so it's under the radar enough, I guess. :cheers: Now I got it!

 haresfur wrote: 

A nonprofit I work with is looking for a web host/platform to build our site on. We're currently running a crusty old roll-your-own site on Hostgator. They have a development toolkit that may be all we need, no idea. Any recommendations for packages that

Are easy to update with fresh content ( a variety of people with minimal computer literacy will need to update different parts of the site)
Have easy-to-use e-commerce tools
Have reasonable and predictable costs
Tech support available at odd hours

If you have someplace you recommend what do you like about them?

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Yes, and it was very popular as body text well into the 1980s.  It may have been Palatino that took over after that.

 Proclivities wrote: 
That was about the year that Souvenir took over the planet.