November 6, 2001
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Today’s nominees in the category of displaying the most incongruent design-related behavior resulting in a questionable benefit to mankind are:
- Kinetic CreationsFor unleashing their eClick software upon a world so devoid of creativity, that it obviously needs oxymoronically-named visual devices called “professional web buttons”. As their smartly targeted marketing copy states: “It’s a no-brainer.” Apparently.
- Nick ShinnFor creating a remarkably bland family of typefaces in memory of another Canadian, the curmudgeonly author Mordecai Richler. I’m sure there’s an billowingly obvious connection here somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I can figure it out. I guess Mr. Richler wrote books, and books have words, and words are generally set in typefaces… um… oh, never mind.
- Apple ComputerFor their recently announced series of Icon Design Kitchens. Events which are specifically “targeted at visual designers looking to maximize their ability to design Mac OS X icons and graphics.” How this is different than designing for non-Mac OS X projects is not indicated. In any case, lunch will be served.
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