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If you're a design purist don't look too closely at page 3 of G2
tomorrow - with 10 minutes to go the production editor, Paul Howlett,
instructed the chief sub, who had been manfully trying to stretch a
piece by Kevin Bacon to fill the required space, to "squeeze the
column width". A year and a half of obsessing over design and it comes
to this - if the art director only knew.

Fortunately G2's own art director was too busy to fall off his chair
in horror: with 20 minutes to go he was still deliberating over what
shade of purple to colour the new G2 logo.
		-- Ian Katz, on The Guardian's new design
		   http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/editors/archives/2005/09/11/g2s_all_done.html

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