{"id":505,"date":"2009-08-12T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-11-06T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T01:11:57","slug":"dont-let-money-change-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/2009\/08\/12\/dont-let-money-change-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let Money Change Ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large\">\nAlright. You have a shade over $120 mil with which to hire one person on behalf of the world. Who&#8217;s it going to be? A boy-band-groomed pop star from the U.K. or a school teacher from Detroit? Seems like a pretty simple task, but, due to some mistake, they both got the millions at one point.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRobbie got his millions for probably singing us lessons of smooth, classic Garamond-y things like falling in love or getting his heart broken or falling in love again or just hooking up with lots of chicks.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj.jpg\" alt=\"jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj\" title=\"jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_robbie_dpj-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><i>Robbie Williams Gets Millions in Record Deal<\/i> typographic composition; 8 x 8in. \/ 2002<\/p>\n<p>\nThe teacher got his or her millions due to a Microgramma-tic computer glitch. Not for teaching square things like Mathematics or Wood Shop.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj.jpg\" alt=\"jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj\" title=\"jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_teach_dpj-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><i>Anonymous Teacher Gets Millions due to Computer Glitch<\/i> typographic composition; 8 x 8in. \/ 2002<\/p>\n<p>\nOne clue as to who should have made what can be found in the glaring disparity of said millions between their respective ledgers. Robbie, who was wildly popular in his home country but all-but-nothing in the U.S., got $125 million from his contract in 2002. The teacher, who may or may not have been popular in class\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut completely anonymous to the world, received over $117 million less (before taxes). But the error is clear: The teacher should have received approximately $125 million less&#8230; <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_juxt_dpj.jpg\" alt=\"jb_workshop_news_juxt_dpj\" title=\"jb_workshop_news_juxt_dpj\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_juxt_dpj.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jb_workshop_news_juxt_dpj-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><i>Money for Something<\/i> typographic juxtaposition; 16 x 8in. \/ 2002<\/p>\n<p>\nThis typographic editorial juxtaposition project, given by guest lecturer Jean Benoit L\u00c3\u00a9vy as one of several Advanced Typography projects in the design program at the University of Washington, was instrumental in teaching me the value of a good, honest typeface.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/white.gif' width=\"12px\" height=\"24px\"\/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright. You have a shade over $120 mil with which to hire one person on behalf of the world. Who&#8217;s it going to be? A boy-band-groomed pop star from the U.K. or a school teacher from Detroit? Seems like a pretty simple task, but, due to some mistake, they both got the millions at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-print","category-type-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielpjohnston.com\/graphic-language\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}