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web design

Paul Rand and Coldplay

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Coldplay’s web site created this year, bears a remarkable resemblance to a book cover design by Paul Rand a few decades ago. The comparison cannot be missed. Compare the Coldplay web page screen capture: to Paul Rand’s assertive design: Comparing is to focus on what is similar. Contrasting is to focus on what is not. [...]

Is This Inexperienced “Designer” Being Exploited?

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This afternoon I was listening to a radio talk show in which the host was interviewing business majors from a local college. One of the students expressed an interest in pursuing graphic design upon graduating next spring. She liked the idea of designing web sites, although it was fairly obvious in listening to her speak [...]