Design 101
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- mikotondria30
Just tell everybody that the way materials and communications should look is like a uniform - every UPS guy understands the few simple rules for dressing when on the job - dark shoes, these or those pants, the brown shirt. Always together, all the time.
People don't have to think about it once it's a habit - this font for body copy, at this size, this heading, leading, letter-spacing etc, set like this - set and forget. It's easier to follow the guidelines and learn them once than it is to try and create yet another 60pt centered notice on a4 paper that they stick to the wall, that contain stupid, obvious, passive-aggressive instructions about putting this here or closing that, or not doing such-and-such!!!!!!!
Those ad hoc printed 'signs' are an indication of a badly managed office. Fuck them. None of that shit. Take them down.
Take them down, now.
Yes, right now.
I don't care - call them back, they'll wait.The point being that if the office looks like incongruous shit, then what comes out of it will too. No 'dress down Wednesdays' or shit like that. Proper shirts, nice shoes, no bra straps showing, no Crocs, no short shorts or baseball hats. Take fucking pride in how this whole outfit looks. Clean the carpet, have new equipment, clean windows, new chairs, make it smell nice.
The work environment shows in everything it produces, every call, every email, message. Get that shit together. No excuses.