I hate designers with more good taste than sense. That mess of characters isn't easy on the eyes. It doesn't make you look hip or cool. Making it an image means my readability bookmarklet won't work on it. There might be lot's of good info there but who want's to spend 5 minutes untangling that mess.
This looked like a standard quite nicely typed "motivational speech", albeit a bit cliché, until the last sentence: "Live your dream, and wear your passion".<p>Coming from what appears to be (I didn't know them before) a t-shirt company, to me it now reads as "life is short, buy our t-shirts". But maybe I'm just jaded. :)
Not easy to just leave job with wife and kiddo on your shoulders. Yeah it is sounds good, but any job have good things and bad things, i'd say better try to find positive, good things about your job and concentrate on it, learn to concentrate on good things.
I would have been impressed if this was done CSS3, but really... An image? With a wall of text? A wall of text with words being pulled at random? A wall of unreadable text being pulled at random with little stylistic elements and such a variation of weights that my eyes water (and tears flow because of the pain) when reading it? I now wish to never leave the sanctity of my corporate, well paying job which, by the way, allows me to buy stuff, eat, and provide for my family.<p>I hate this sanctimonious bullshit people try to pull off as being motivational. Everyone knows that loving your job is the best way to go, but you could be doing a lot worse (tried being a shoeless kid with no clean water and a sever case of malnutrition) than not 'loving' your job.<p>You might not enjoy working at your local McDonalds, but if that's where you are now (for a lack of a better job) you better freaking try your hardest to better yourself, and in the process smile when you're giving me my fricking order. Not everyone has the luck of getting their dream job right away or the benefit of rich parents that allow some fast climbing in the social world. Stop preaching.
Sure, maybe the plug is a bit cheesy.<p>But these guys are really great. I met Mike from Hostlee at the 'A Better World by Design' conference up in Providence. He's a really cool guy, and definitely believes in living what you dream. I kinda wish he had designed that whole poster himself.<p>Still, very cool, considering his dream is helping others.
"Quit your job" is not the crux here. The crux here is "Live your life" and one way of achieving it could be quitting your job. And I think the cut-out is trying to convey the same. It actually says "IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR JOB, QUIT" rather than "QUIT YOUR JOB". Quitting the job or sticking to it will hardly matter as long as priorities are set straight.<p>Regarding the readability of the message, I think it depends on your reading frequency. I did not struggle at all. And just for the records, my native tongue is not English.