FINE.

So I was in the middle of making a very long and arch post about this, when Ian pointed out that it was not worth getting fired over. I don’t necessarily agree with that, but I will self-censor in the interest of maintaining a paycheck with which to buy my future tickets to the new-and-improved version of the Monster Ball once it comes back. Living Dress*, I’m doing this for you!

So the shortened version of this Very Furious Post? Someone (who is not in my department, is not my boss, and is not a graphic designer) sent me this note, on a flier I had created, via email:

all of the title fonts and names look too rickety – not very serious. I’m sure you know these are profound mature men, exemplary writers and scholars….I feel the current font looks to frivolous

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(Incidentally, I would be remiss not to add: muthafuckin [sic,] yo.)

She went on, later, to ask me to re-space the vertical space between lines of text so that everything was completely equidistant (the “x presents…” equidistant from the title of the event equidistant from the word “with” equidistant from the names of the participants…).

That is all.

(This does, though, at least make me feel like a real designer, which is a bonus.)

*Incidentally – did the Jim Henson company actually make this dress? Anybody know? I think she’s said it was “inspired” by Hussein Chalayan, but I haven’t heard who actually made it?

**PROFOUND AND MATURE MEN.