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06.22.17
Michael Bierut + Jessica Helfand | Audio

Episode 59: Signatures and Circles


Michael remembers when clients wanted to see how their logo looked on their letterhead and business cards.

“I still will show a letterhead, but I can tell that a lot of the people in the room don’t intend to ever send anyone letters,” he says. “Instead they send emails.“

So now he designs email signatures, and his approach is minimal. But since the days of ASCII signature blocks on Usenet, email signatures have been a contentious topic.

Here is some contradictory advice from the past decade:
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