Quark arts council

From the “what, they’re still around?” department comes a dispatch from the small corner of the world that [Quark](http://www.quark.com/)  still inhabits.

I learned desktop publishing on an old Mac IIcx running a very early version of QuarkXPress. I kept with it through all kinds of weird twists and turns, all kinds of terrible bugs and incompatibilities, forgave them for taking three years to support MacOS X, even forgave them for buying and killing mTropolis. A couple of years ago, I said “enough is enough”, held my nose and went to Adobe’s InBloatware. Sigh.

So, after ignoring Quark for years, I’m surprised to realise that they’re still alive. In a brilliant publicity stunt, they rebranded themselves, stealing the logo from the Scottish Arts Council – a move sure to get the attention of, well, the Scottish Arts Council and readers of The Register .