lol

Paint is textured, too.

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Gave a talk about this at UCDA back in 2019, arguing that it was time to teach Grid-based layout methods rather than whatever people thought was most common in industry. But that was about a detail, and I didn't see the choice in such fundamental terms.

Or is this a South County saying?

Wait, south of Narragansett?

This is Rhode Island: drive an hour and people expect to stay the night.

The Potomac gouges its way through a good five Level III ecoregions. Most of these rivers are not usefully navigable (see the American invention of the long-distance railroad), and California has put paid to the importance of managing water resources basin-by-basin.

DDOT is engaged in improving all the city's streetlights, except for the historic Washington Globes, which get a dispensation to be awful in every respect.

I have to conclude that the vast majority of household hazmat/ewaste in DC is going into the regular trash.

Very clever.

I should say, this is really a school problem. Everyone working understands that it's necessary (and good!) to have small text on CDs. Slides for projection and laptops are appropriately scaled. It's for formal pinups that folks lose their judgement.

I will admit that, in running graphic design crits, I'd often be coaching students to stand up and look at the (say) 8×10 in. sheets we were discussing from close up, from the intended and practicable viewing distance, but students do eventually develop some awareness.