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Old friends
‘What’s your angle?’ Mrs. Oldfield said, patting Daisy as the huge Golden Retriever slumped over her legs like a giant blonde blanket.
‘My angle?’
‘You’ve got to have an angle, otherwise your design won’t stand out,’ Mrs. Oldfield said.
‘Can’t you just make something artistic, like you did for Jason?’
‘Look, there’s a big difference between art and design, not that those fools who run the school boards would know. Art is expression, a projection of self. Design is representation, suggestion.’
‘Oh.’
‘In other words, advertising. You design something that you want people to take note of, so that they’ll remember you or buy your products. At least that’s what the online course said, and I signed up for that because of their silly dog logo. So, what’s it to be? What’s yo
