1.) Download a sheet of doane paper from doanepaper.com.
2.) Print 30 sheets of doane paper from your offices' color copier or printer.
2.) Take the 30 sheets to your local Kinko's and have a paper pad made.
3.) Wrap up the doane paper pad with a sharpie ultra fine marker.
4.) Your Done!
(a)e(s)th(et)ics
I read it as "your [own] office," not "your [employer's] office." On the other hand, if you DO
have an employer, that's where the Sharpie (tm)
can come from. (Only kidding, employers.) The Doane stuff is clever, but I'd also recommend the ? admittedly pricey ? Edward Tufte grid paper. Subtle, and no logo.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters
I recognized
Mr Tufte's graphic style immediately, from the magazine ads (New Yorker ?) for his first books, several years back -- the Gill (?) typeface with its generous kerning and the dry, open and airy layout.
Mr Tufte seems quite taken with himself, as an artist ! Thanks for the link. . .
I was impressed
just on the basis of the ads -- we'll take all the help we can get, in this ever-increasingly complex era, in making sense, for ourselves and for our audience, of data and its potential meanings. . .
Sensible and thoughtful graphic presentation goes a long way in convincing me, at least, of the sense and thoughtfulness of the content.
Do I recall pop-up pages ?
Pop-up
Yeah. In addition to being a good story teller (Tufte's sort of the Spaulding Gray [sp?] of graphic design), he's very smart about protecting the integrity of his work--an attitude that resonates with some recent Forum talk re: "real" vs. "genuine." Anyway, he publishes his own books, and that enables him to do things like tipping-in a teeny little pop-up replica of an illustration in an 18th century landscape gardening book. But no more of what he calls "junk" than is absolutely necessary. A minimalist in the truest, most graceful sense.
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