A funny story...

Not that funny really but it backs up my thinking about layout artists and designers.

I recently had to get a poster printed for an event I'm organising and was in a bit of a hurry to get it done. Essentially, the work was laid out and set and really, all that needed to be done was to re-style it and smooth out the rough edges - I was working in MS Publisher, which is very clunky and the designer works on a Mac G3000 Turbo with an in-built cappuccino maker and a mouse that doubles as a shoulder massager.

So what comes back from the designer for my approval? A poster that is not only extremely different in 'look' (not all bad as they have access to some great graphics) but is only missing the date of the event, the time of the event, the place where the event is being held, one of the guest speakers and none of the contact details.

Hmmm.

So now I understand how designers could possibly ignore the need for correct spelling - they are too busy trying to de-nude the entire work of any useful information and so 'spell-check' probably doesn't have any use for them as there is no text left for them to check. But it looks real pretty...

Ranting Picky Bitch - over and out.