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title: "Notices"
url: https://othercommunications.com/series/notices
description: "A notice is the most formal thing most organisations ever write, and the least examined. This series treats the announcement as a form with rules of its own: what it has."
---

# Notices

Series A · plates 01 to 04

A notice is the most formal thing most organisations ever write, and the least examined. This series treats the announcement as a form with rules of its own: what it has to contain, what it may not borrow from advertising, and how its timing changes what it means.

[A · Plate 01 · What an Announcement Owes Its Reader · 640 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/what-an-announcement-owes-its-reader)

[A · Plate 02 · The First Paragraph Does the Work · 572 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/the-first-paragraph-does-the-work)

[A · Plate 03 · Dates, Embargoes and the Clock · 619 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/dates-embargoes-and-the-clock)

[A · Plate 04 · When Not to Announce Anything · 619 words](https://othercommunications.com/work/when-not-to-announce-anything)

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[Notes on scope and method](https://othercommunications.com/notes)