Over at Coroflot's Creative Seeds blog Carl Alviani is adding spice to the discussion on the designers lost art form, writing. Where has the eloquence gone? Jumping two paragraphs in:
There was a time when facility and even eloquence with the written word was expected of just about every professional--creative or otherwise--and a lot of non-professionals too. Reading letters and business correspondence from the early part of the 20th century is a gently humbling experience, imparting pangs in the reader who realizes that a request for additional tacks by a carpenter in 1910 was written more elegantly than most correspondence between executives today. There are a range of reasons for this apparent decline--literacy rates are higher now, for example, and so the upper-class association that the written word once held has faded--but this is a larger, more academic question than I'm trying to answer here.
...designers create visual documents, and complain that their non-creative counterparts don't know how to read a sketch...
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