Type Barbarians at the Gates

12:22 AM, June 22, 2006

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Seattle Weekly says: "Do journalists in New York do any original thinking at all?"

Business Week says: "I ... was unaware of the Seattle Weekly headline, story or cover art."

Me, I just think it's funny (on several levels!) that on a cover about Bill Gates, Seattle Weekly used, not Microsoft's Comic Sans, but Apple's, er, homage to it.


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Heads up: After you hit "post" things may be slow and you may get an error. Most likely, your comment did post. Apologies. I'm looking for a fix.

Whatever the case, BizWeek got it right. If Gates is getting schooled, he should be in the desk, not up at the chalkboard looking like he's ready to conduct an orchestra.

Posted by: Christopher Harrop at June 23, 2006 5:56 AM

Excellent point. I didn't catch that, but you're absolutely right. I guess you could chalk that up to poor art direction.

Posted by: roy at June 23, 2006 2:55 PM

both covers are pretty thin on concept ... and coincidences do happen!

Posted by: wes at June 26, 2006 2:50 PM

I find it amusing that Seattle Weekly would accuse any other publication of unoriginality. Check out this collection put together last year by SW's in-town competition, The Stranger:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/BigArt?oid=22082

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