When a client rejected a logo I had spent four days developing because the blue I had chosen was ‘completely wrong for the brand,’ I had a problem. I reviewed the file on my calibrated monitor. The blue looked correct…
I am 49 years old and I have been a graphic designer for 22 years. The screen hours I have accumulated since 1997 are somewhere near 50,000 hours of high-intensity visual demand. The consequences arrived on schedule: accelerating presbyopia, persistent…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my deteriorating vision. Like many professionals in their late forties spending eight to ten hours daily in front of screens, I had normalized the progressive blurring at the edges of my…
My name is Ryan. I have been a graphic designer for twenty-two years and I have run my own brand design studio for the past eleven. My clients are mid-to-large retail companies who pay for precision: exact color matching, tight…