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Designers, in other words, are only part of the equation these days in terms of crafting a brand identity. "[The process] has been pulled away from graphic designers - specialists - and pulled into this nebulous room of other people who make design decisions by committee," said Ben Mahler, a former creative director at MLS club DC United. "Marketing directors, focus groups, analytics driven shit, it all ends up pushing things into safer territory. It's losing the artistic side and the wonkiness that comes from an individual."
"Toward the end of the writing process, as my anxiety about the book matched my anxiety about the state of the world, I had a discomforting realization: Marjorie Taylor Greene and I are both doing the same thing—trying to use facts to explain a pervasive feeling of injustice. And that in this endeavor, she has the advantage—she could tell the whole story in one Facebook post. I needed several years, hundreds of books, and hundreds of thousands of words on the cutting room floor. And her story of conspiracies and devious Jewish bankers may be more salient and appealing for its simplicity. She is wrong about nearly every fact, but she is not wrong about identifying the feeling." Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
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