Desktop Publishing Quotes

• I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

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  John Katzman

  People   Marketing   Collaboration  

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• When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

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  Steve Jobs

  Typewriters   Years   Stanford University  

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Technology   Differences   Decision  

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.

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  Michael Bierut

  Jobs   Real   Years  

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• ...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

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  Massimo Vignelli

  Doctors   People   Design  

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• I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20 years ago when the desktop publishing revolution came about that allowed people with Macintosh's at home to produce professional-looking newsletters or publications for the first time. So, there's a long march toward more democratization for design.

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  Khoi Vinh

  Home   Thinking   Years  

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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