[CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?

[David Ilvedson]

Ron,

Now what  exactly do you know about graphic artists and what they do?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 3/17/2008 1:25:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?



>> He's right that the computer enables graphic artists
>> to produce a big load of work in a short time, 

>Well, no, it doesn't. the time is wasted doing computer 
>related things and dealing with clients who believe there is 
>little time involved in the artist making up fifty versions of 
>something so they can reject them all out of hand because they 
>couldn't seem to convey to the artist what it was they wanted. 
>After all, you just push the button and the design appears on 
>the screen, right?


>>and to
>> make some effects they couldn't make any other way.

>Granted, often at considerable expenditure of time and 
>frustration. Had much experience with software?


>> However, I made up my business card from scratch, with
>> a pen and ink drawing, and with press-on letters, twice
>> the desired size. Then the printer shot it down.
>> 
>> The result was a card which looks unlike anyone else's.
>> It stands out from a batch of others whacked together on
>> a computer, without recourse to fancy color or raised
>> printing.

>A mediocre graphic artist is a mediocre graphic artist whether 
>they are working on a computer or not. Much like a mediocre 
>tuner, be it with a computer or a fork.

>Ron N