Comments on: Lovely vs Functional Displays http://www.thethankstank.com/2009/11/lovely-vs-functional-displays/ The Thanks Tank Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:08:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: rwilliams http://www.thethankstank.com/2009/11/lovely-vs-functional-displays/comment-page-1/#comment-5 rwilliams Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:08:34 +0000 http://www.thethankstank.com/?p=658#comment-5 Yes, it is a pleasant design and quite dramatic. Yet neither issue is at the top of my list for appropriate donor recognition. “Legibility”, however, is. If I only had a crayon and construction paper, the donor name(s), written legibly and in context with one another, along with an appropriate “Thank You” from the organization, are really all that is needed. Anything beyond that is money wasted unless other parameters such as durability, ease of change, visual interest, architectural integration, story-telling, and so on have been identified as important to the public commemoration of those donors as well. Robin Yes, it is a pleasant design and quite dramatic. Yet neither issue is at the top of my list for appropriate donor recognition. “Legibility”, however, is. If I only had a crayon and construction paper, the donor name(s), written legibly and in context with one another, along with an appropriate “Thank You” from the organization, are really all that is needed.

Anything beyond that is money wasted unless other parameters such as durability, ease of change, visual interest, architectural integration, story-telling, and so on have been identified as important to the public commemoration of those donors as well. Robin

]]> By: stevehall52 http://www.thethankstank.com/2009/11/lovely-vs-functional-displays/comment-page-1/#comment-4 stevehall52 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:28:45 +0000 http://www.thethankstank.com/?p=658#comment-4 It is a pleasant design and very dramatic. If legibility weren't an issue would REWI approve? It is a pleasant design and very dramatic. If legibility weren’t an issue would REWI approve?

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