BL.JPL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Jonathan Lavigne) (04/08/90)
In article <40077@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (The Bounty Hunter) writes: >Well, the May 1990 Publish (note, no more "!") magazine is here, and they've >done another bottom-to-top redesign. So it's time to kibbitz about how the >folks who are trying to teach us all about publishing did. > >What do people think? Did they blow it again in their attempt to out-Spy Spy? > >Is it trendy? Or just unreadable? Some of it is certainly unreadable, or at least it mightily resists reading. The cover, for example, is a disaster. The background image overwhelms the text, so you can't tell what's inside. Some of the inside pages also have the same problem. The cutesy background drowns out the foreground text. Is this a new wave of deconstructionist design? I have the feeling they think doing the opposite of what's expected is with-it and now and rad. Do people usually read pages from left to right? Hey, let's put the initial paragraph on the RIGHT. Wow, far out. What's next, printing the text backward and upside down? That would make about as much sense as some of the things they've done. Jonathan Lavigne BL.JPL@RLG.STANFORD.EDU Research Libraries Group Stanford University