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#quality type/art

    03-Oct-89 15:28:08
Sb: #quality type/art
Fm: Michael Diehl 76004,1001
To: Tripp Narup 76340,134
Here Here! (Hear Hear! ?) I'm so pleased to see messages from "typophiles" out there on the grid. Having spent some time in advertising myself, I do believe that, on a certain level of subconsciousness, people to "recognize" quality type (and quality photography, design, etc). More certainly, people in the industry (including many a client) know it when they see it (though they may not know anything about how to "make" it), and, to a small degree, those people (the clients) are the audience/market for the ads. Reminds me of the old debate in school: is an ad "good" – given that it's clever, well conceived, well written and art directed – if it doesn't sell any products?