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Design losing its effectiveness

Every day I see evid­ence that we are los­ing our abil­ity to under­stand and appre­ci­ate effect­ive design — trad­ing our appre­ci­ation and under­stand­ing for fet­ish.
~ source: Andy Rutledge

Andy Rutledge, you have no idea how much I agree with you.

I’d like to add that the design of this Journal was an exper­i­ment in design-porn. I found my past designs too aus­tere. I felt it lim­ited my abil­ity to fully express what I wanted to con­vey. I must say that I haven’t quite reached a point where I’m sat­is­fied with the amount of fluff in this design yet.

So get ready for more fluff (and a good cull­ing afterwards)!

edit: Whoops, thanks Bob!

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One Response to “Design losing its effectiveness”

  1. Bob says:

    I love the text on this page — it’s nice to see some serifs for a change on the web. And that big E in the quote is beau­ti­ful, as is the title. I think you mean “Design los­ing its effect­ive­ness”, though (without the apostrophe).

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