FORM MEETS DYSFUNCTION

The first design brief was: “Make it pop.” The rest was interpretive suffering.

✗ FAKE
This is a joke. A design brief is a document describing a project's goals, audience and constraints. There is no documented first brief reading 'Make it pop.'

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