April 2, 2003: It must say something about the state of contemporary culture that the Corbis home page devotes equal real estate to professional and personal users. (Links under "for personal use" include "Crafts Pictures" and "E-Cards"). What's interesting to me here is something about the democratization of visual communication--the idea that more people are communicating graphically (not to mention via animation) than ever before. Only a generation ago, choosing a font was an esoteric task for a specialized caste of professionals. Now, Corbis sees a viable consumer market for stock art.