Has anyone else noticed how surreal AIIM's e-doc Magazine covers have
been?

 

As with the Jan/Feb cover (http://www.edocmagazine.com/), the
March/April is a touch of Magritte and Monty Python animator Terry
Gilliam (aside: Gilliam's _Brazil_ ranks as the #1 Records Management
Movie of All Time in my book).

 

 

Related Issue:

Finding images to put into training for RIM is quite a challenge. It may
be a rule that the work does not lend itself to graphic representation
very well, or it may be that the profession just hasn't found its
Michelangelo yet.  While ARMA's frequent use of Busby Berkeley-esque use
of 0's and 1's, is intriguing, I dare say it doesn't visually represent
the work at all. I certainly do not have a whirl of 0's and 1's
vortexing though my office....  

 

I know it is unfair to criticize anyone who attempts to visually convey
our work, but some images are a bit obtuse. For example, the icon used
by ARMA for "Records/Info Management: Celebrate RIM Month" is just
bizarre (http://www.arma.org/pdf/RIMIQPoster.pdf) -  A head full of
gears, tape spools and mother boards, half head, closed eye -  seen by
the viewer through a rainy window?  RIM certainly isn't about
obfuscation and keeping the eye shut!

 

On the ARMA home page, the icon next to "Industry News" - glasses off
the head on a chart (showing declining results?) - leads me to think
that the owner of those glasses is rubbing her/his temples and logging
on to the listserve to review job postings....

   

Anyhow, I am not an artist and in Friday OT I can have the luxury of
critique - criticizing without offering a better solution!

Happy weekend everybody!

 

- Chuck Piotrowski

 

 

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