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So if you're a private individual or a business who has donated to them, this survey is what you are buying. Fuck.
They are all people friendly, light, airy and full of resources like play areas for kids, banks of computers, quiet rooms for study, conference areas for meetings.
I would just let KCLS come in and take over the Seattle facilities to bring a suburban sensibility to their urban junkiness.
—Frizzelle, I guess
Great work, all of you. What a bunch of navel-gazing assholes.
Thank you.
@Fixie Frizzelle:
You are representing a for-profit company, right? Maybe you should just be grateful that my tax dollars pay for you to have microfiche available, regardless of how inconvenient it may be for you? Fuck you and your entitled views on entering codes.
consider this probably includes print materials and web redesign (and maybe a redevelopment) and there is probably a team of 20+ working full-time on it.
but yeah, we shouldn't pay people.
And why do I have to sign in each day? Didn't use (used?) to have to do so.
But yeah. I guess the Seattle Public Library should just use free interns like The Stranger did for two decades.
They are trying to broaden the appeal of their product beyond homeless people jacking off to porn, which, let's face facts, is a niche market at best.
Although there is also the question of why the new logo choices are all meaningless shite.
Though I wouldn't put it past Hornall to charge 300K for a logo if they could, all of this is a silly straw man. There was a whole bunch more work than just re-working the identity/brand including updating the ancient website and other technologies. At least there was in the RFP I read a year or two ago. It's been a while.
I tell you what if a client of mine decided to put a design up for a public vote I'd automatically tag another 50K on that just for the idiocy of it. And $25K for the added insult.
Of course it was all doomed to be shit. I've suffered through this process more times than I can count. Doing porn is less awful and degrading. So they better have gotten paid.