John McWade is the founder and creative director of Before & After. For those of you who are new to all this, John in 1985 was the first desktop publisher in the world, a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that began as the original beta test site for Aldus PageMaker and continues to this day. For more on that story you'll need to read Issue 1, which is in its third printing.

Design Talk arose from side conversations with readers.

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