11 May 4705 - Knowlege is Power
So there's this poster I designed.
Well, okay, played fascist art director for. I would say art direction is an
important part of design, and anyway I was on the team, so I designed it.
Also it is more important to phrase things in the first person when you're
taking responsibility for something.
We were given the catchphrase "expand your web of knowledge" to include as a tag
line in the poster somewhere, and we did, at the bottom. The rest of the layout
was spot-on. Cool graphics, neat overall effect, great flow of information, all
with five or six neat tricks to suture the whole thing together.
I posted them in the JC yesterday and today, but it wasn't until one of the
senior staff (who generally has nothing to do with us but is actually concerned
with other areas of our department) asks if I designed the poster as she was
passing by.
I admitted it, expected to get the usual "this is a graphical triumph, a cool
poster" accolade.
Instead she tells me that "knowledge" is spelled incorrectly on the poster, and
it reflects poorly on the department.
D'oh.
In all the minutiae of editing and direction and oversight, I hadn't noticed the
d. This new word has the power to make me panic for a split second, and then
feel awful about not catching a typo. Knowlege is this power.
Its actually hard to notice, and I chalk that up to the excellent design of the
poster. Even still, I'm going to see about getting some stickers and pasting the
word "knowledge" over the "knowlege" that's there. Under most circumstances,
putting a sticker over it would make it look tacky, but this particular job is
immune to that for technical reasons. Essentially I get to cheat my way to
victory, whereas ordinarily I would have to resign out of shame.
Okay, so the responsibility isn't all that weighty, but no one is going to get
the joke in this sentence.
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