Today at the Conference on World Affairs, I attended a panel session on how our language is changing. And something occurred to me: because our industry is now actively using two page layout applications, graphic designers are becoming “bilingual”, for lack of a more appropriate term. To work effectively, we need to know how to use both QuarkXPress and InDesign well enough to make changes in existing documents, and perhaps even design new ones.

To me, it’s an example of the globalization of everything: we’re learning to understand and respect the perspectives, beliefs, preferences, and even page layout applications that have been adopted by others. So how does this affect the way we THINK? That’s what I’m thinking about now…

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