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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 9 | P E R S P E C T I V E 1 3 E D I T O R ' S N O T E PERSPECTIVE on the ADG Website B Y D A V I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R One of the things I appreciated about PERSPECTIVE long before my current association with it is the entire history of the magazine that is available on the ADG website. These are free to anyone who can navigate to the page, are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the recent history of entertainment design, and shows a real magnanimity on the part of the Guild. Every issue ever published is available as a PDF, and can even be downloaded, for free. The new ADG website has offered another way to share the contents of the journal. Each month, the feature stories are published as web articles on the main page of the site and at the top of the PERSPECTIVE page. The greatest benefit of this is the lack of size and space restrictions found in the printed edition. One of the frustrations of editing the magazine are the times when I have to either leave out images that support the article, or risk what I call the postage-stamp problem, where the images get so small they lose their impact and fail to convey what is going on with the design. The web articles have no meaningful size restriction. Images can be shared full screen, items fit to the printed page can spread out, and full pages of drafted plans and details can be presented that would be illegible in the magazine. It will take us a couple more issues to work out the process of converting the printed page to the website, and I would never want the digital version to replace the glossy pages we send out every couple months. But if you are looking over an article and wish you could get a better look at the images, and perhaps see a few that are not in the magazine, a visit to the ADG website might be in order.