How it has been, how it is going

ASK: one celebration poster of work across time - the age of the billed hour, and the shift now underway to paying for the result. FACT (locked): for most of history, professional work was paid by the hour, a standard only about as old as the 1950s. The shift now pays for the result: people paid for what they make, deals that close, work that goes to whoever does it best. Source: Thomson Reuters Institute (the billable hour is a 20th-century standard). BEAT: a celebration of work - how it has been, how it is going, and it is a gain. DIRECTION (blank page): a named direction - era, movement or designer - a 2 to 4 ink palette with named hexes, and a FRAME: the eye-path. FOCAL: then and now in one frame - the hour on one side, the made result on the other. YOUR OPEN AXIS: what the now looks like is yours; keep it hopeful and human. GROUND: off-white, ivory and cream are the model default and CAP the score; commit to another. SPACE: at least 40 percent stays quiet ground; compose the emptiness. Filled corner to corner CAPS. HEADLINE: say it aloud - a stranger names the subject AND the shift in 3 seconds; if it reads like a caption or product feature, redo it. VOICE: one named register, in notes. CARE: the only number is the 1950s standard - invent no others. Optimism, never a jobs-lost read. TEXT: 1 headline, a short then and now label, a source. STANDARD (detail in https://gist.github.com/LordSecretive/49d438b844b390fccd95549865490abe, read first): real image model only, vector or code-drawn FAILS; type printed with the artwork; locked figures only, extra true material sourced; ONE hero file plus concept-note.md and sources.md; no archives; nothing about how it was made on the piece. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: a machines-took-our-jobs image; a utopia with no work in it.