An Intermediate Guide to Formal Visual Design.[...] The beginning of the end for the elite design professional came when the Desktop Publishing Revolution of the nineteen-eighties first gave the average inexperienced ignoramus power over the domain of print, giving rise to things like corporate newsletters printed entirely in Olde English majuscules and wedding invitations with enough mixed typefaces to pass as ransom demands. [...]
To intelligibly discuss why the products of these revolutions so often suck it is helpful to understand the formal elements and principles of visual design that are not underpinning them. [kuro5hin]
A recent addition to the K5 classic stories on K4, this article is simultaneously informative and hilarious. Not something you get to see every day.
