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Design is making fun of things lining up, and fonts

Design is making fun of things lining up, and fonts

Thanks to Jon, Shaun and Scott, I was forced (believe me, I had no choice in the matter) to sarcastically tweak their desktop images. It wasn’t a job I enjoyed, I promise you, but this is the kind of dirty work someone has to do, and today that responsibility fell to me (and that’s the fault of Jina, for telling me about your posts to begin with).

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26 Responses to “Design is making fun of things lining up, and fonts”

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  1. Jina Bolton says:

    hmmmmm… and I wonder who led you to this distraction, eh?

  2. Jon Hicks says:

    Oh shit! Its become a meme, which means 37signals will be whupping my ass very soon!

  3. Jina Bolton says:

    Jina. Helping Dan procrastinate one meme at a time.

  4. Dan Rubin says:

    Really Jon, you should have seen this coming — you must practice safe meme’ing or else contract a 37STD (37signals-transmitted-disapproval).

  5. Shaun Inman says:

    Now what do I do? I only have two monitors! To the iBook! Wait Leslie has two too! (Puts on sneaking cap…)

  6. James Bebbington says:

    Make you meme make money!

    Somebody needs to get these bad boys on threadless.com :)

  7. James Bebbington says:

    Damn ‘r’s… ‘you’ = ‘your’. First my laptop thought it was a pirate (loved sticking ‘r’s everywhere), these days it seems somewhat eluctant.

  8. Scott says:

    Shaun - rotating desktops! Even one screen works.

    Dan - Comic Sans!! You’re breaking my heart, man. Still funny though. I’ll save that one for my mom.

  9. Dan Rubin says:

    @Scott: Satire is a difficult business. Sometimes one must employ underhanded methods…

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  13. Bryan Veloso says:

    Late to the party again? Crap.
    This is what I get for not having a feed reader.

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  15. Dan Rubin says:

    @Veerle: Love it :)

    @Bryan: There’s “fashionably late” and then there’s just plain “late” — guess which one you are this time? ;)

    @Mike G: Dude, that ROCKS.

  16. Chris Cagle says:

    I couldnt resist either… it just feels so good to jump on the bandwagon… plus I was looking for something to post about today ;)

    http://www.cagintranetworks.com/projects/2006/09/design-wallpaper-bandwagon/

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  19. iamshimone says:

    This is the sort of meme I love. Not a designer of course but irony is to be found nonetheless: http://www.jungle-life.com/item/975

  20. Dave says:

    Comic Sans is a font beloved by computer novices everywhere. How dare ye! ;)

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