Bit By Bit

“Not all personalized expression looks good to other people, of course. Especially in the early days of desktop publishing, a lot of amateurs went in for the multifont ransom-note look. PowerPoint presentations are still often hard to read or cluttered with clichéd clip art, and the Web is full of ugly sites. But, on the whole, the computer-driven democratization of design has made more people sensitive to graphic quality. Bit by bit, the general public has learn the literal and metaphorical language of graphic design” (Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style, p. 55).