This is the story of how Apple has influenced him as a designer, from his first Mac for which he could only afford one font, to the present day. All extracts taken from his book '8vo: On the Outside'
"Towards the end of 1989 we bought our first computer. By the middle of 1990 we had started using it to produce typesetting for use in poster artwork. Initially we would output only the letter spaced type & use this in a conventional paste-up but as the museum project progressed, the computer became more fully integrated into the poster design & production process."
"In the spring of 1989 we were commissioned by Holt Hinshaw Pfau Jones to design a second folding poster in the same format as the one from 1987 (see image below)
We began to think about our work as constructing virtual information spaces within the 2-dimensional window of the page. This provided a framework for the development of ideas & approaches for several years to come. Our interest was in 'building' things. This notion of construction would be important when we started working on computers - this job for HHPJ just predated us buying our first Mac (but it would be at least another two years before we had the skills to attempt a job of this complexity using design software)."
Later in 1989 we worked with HHPJ on a competition entry for the Acropolis Museum. They too had just started working on the Mac. One of the project architects flew over from San Francisco to work with us & together we got to grips with the basics of designing on the computer."
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