Posts Tagged ‘typography’
Bad Design Is Everywhere
Walking through Wal-Mart on our yearly night-before-class, make-sure-we-have-food-&-school-stuff trip, I came across something that made me so angry, so miffed, so disappointed – it wasn’t any of these 3 true things:
There were no people working checkout tonight at 1 a.m. Only the “self-checkout” machine that always requires assistance from a real person anyway.
Wal-Mart does not [...]
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Tags: bad, typography, wal-mart
Social Classes in Helvetica
Can’t sleep. Enjoy.
Working on a new portfolio site, but having trouble with a theme. I’ve built like 10 simple ideas, but none of them stick enough to update it.
Need to get something solid up if I’m going to apply for internships soon, so I need to figure out what theme really defines me. Sounds like [...]
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Tags: helvetica, social classes, typography, website
Typ*gr*phy Idea
Ok so from what I can tell from internet portfolios you can’t be a real graphic designer without your own custom created typeface, usually either based on the immortal Helvetica or some strange, illegible fat font that looks like 26 squares with a few tiny notches cut out of the sides to somehow create letters [...]
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Tags: font, ink, minimalist, typography
