From Irene McC Sent Thu, Oct 30th 1997, 08:24
On 29 Oct 97, Chris.Hilker wrote: Re: (idm) german 'blech': > To me, a good layout must be functional. The Blech CD cover art > has a virtually unreadable tracklist, [...] as do 'Chiastic Slide' > [...] that sacrifice content on the altar of form). ABSOLUTELY !!! Tri Rep was 'minimal' but at least if you look closely, it's all there somewhere. But Chiastic Slide is just contrived and doesn't even look good, *IMO*. Same goes for other Warp releases - think AI 2, where the printed text merges with the background colour making it really hard to read, especially in low-light, which is quite often the situation when you want to listen to that kind of late-night mellow music. And don't even start on SAW 2 :-) I * np : Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves