You can recognise publishing houses that have active art departments from their magazines, in which style always takes precedence over substance, with stark headlines set in acres of white space, portraits shot so as to give a magnified worm’s eye view up the subject’s left nostril, and a picture of the Post Office Tower used to illustrate anything remotely connected with telecommunications – but a chill wind is blowing through the corridors of our once-relaxed art colleges: a recent advertisement for an art editor cited as its only qualification familiarity with the Aldus Corp Pagemaker page make-up and desk-top publishing program.
