Quotes About Format

Time always comes in its own format, It is our attitude and behavior that makes it difficult or pleasant.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.

Accelerated by social media, moral panic has become the last dependably profitable format of modern news reporting.

New in Word 2013, you can edit .pdf files. Earlier versions of Word let you save a document as a .pdf, but you couldn't edit a document in that format — you'd have to convert it to a .docx or .doc file first. Now, when you open a .pdf with Word 2013, you can read the file, edit it, and save it as a .pdf — no conversion needed. No more worries about tables or other elements getting messed up by switching formats.

But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To

But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.

It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

The system needs to get right to the bottom line and remain very transparent in terms of its format, structure, and intent.

The designer is primarily confronted with three classes of material: a) the given material: product, copy, slogan, logotype, format, media, production process; b) the formal material: space, contrast, proportion, harmony, rhythm, repetition, line, mass, shape, color, weight, volume, value, texture; c) the psychological material: visual perception and optical illusion problems, the spectators' instincts, intuitions, and emotions as well as the designer's own needs.