Proof Positive: Professional designers use Macintosh, and Print magazine has the proof (by Scott Kelby - November/December Mac Today)
Print, "America's Graphic Design Magazine", just published its Digital Design and Illustration annual which features winners in a host of design categories. Each winning piece is displayed in the magazine, along with a full list of credits, which software was used, and which type of computer it was produced on.
Want to know which platform professional designers are using? Then look at these results: In the Print and Package design category, every single winning piece was designed on a Macintosh. Not even one winner used a PC.
How about Motion Graphics (DV, TV, etc.)? The Macintosh winners easily beat everything else combined, including high-end proprietary systems like Quantel Paintbox, Flint, Flame-SGI, etc. Oh yeah, one winner was designed using a PC.
The Interactive design category (Website and Multimedia design) featured 60 winners. Of them, 47 were created entirely on a Macintosh; nine were created using Macs and PCs; and yes, my friends, only four of the winners were designed using a PC. That's less than 7%. It gets worse for Windows from there.
How about Print's Illustration and Photography category? 100% Macintosh. Not one single winner designed on a PC. Even in the Architectural and Environmental (signage) category not one single Windows winner; 100% Macintosh again.
Keep this article in your wallet the nest time a designer asks you why you use a Macintosh. It's because "that's what the pros use."
Bob Nunn - President, Operator Headgap Systems President, AppleCore of Memphis, Inc. E-mail: headgap@headgap.com
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