Favourite Typefaces
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- Dr_Rand0
who the fuck is hating? nobody said it was a bad cause, they're just sick of designer fetish items
- hating, complaining, criticizing, whatever. you know what I mean.Soler
- But hate is such a strong word Soler!uncle_helv
- ...Unless you meant haterz!uncle_helv
- yes, in the hip-hop sense of the word. "hataz"Soler
- jameswest0
Hi. This is James. I made the book. It's interesting to see so many people having a good old rant about this, and even replacing a page with an ASCII stretched open arse. How exciting!
Anyway. I made this book because I thought that lots of designers would buy it, and it would be a quick and effective way to raise loadss for UNICEF if it took off, and it did: it sold out 2000 copies in two weeks. So yes it was a niche product for a niche market, but it did what I hoped.
- neue75_bold0
I for one, just can't get enough...
- uncle_helv0
I applaud the cause, but still feel the book has zero value other than the money going to a UNICEF! and from a self promotion point of view the column inches/blog time you have generated for yourself as I a young enthusiastic designer, I guess are priceless.
A friend of mine purchased it and after a quick browse, I initially liked the size of it, but felt it was very basic, certainly not the most hansom of volumes, however, what I found most frustrating and this is what IMO strips it of all it's value, it doesn't have an appendix of fonts used, surely this must be the most important consideration, as anyone who isn't that typograpically versed buying this in the hope to find out just what all the cool kids were using, would have to go on another hunt to find out what said fonts were!
- jameswest0
Hi.
So this will be my last post here as I don't want to get involved in any kind of long-winded hoo-har. I made the decision not to include typeface names so that it would become less of a type specimen book and more of a visual representation of what's going on in designers' minds type-wise. So not a reference book but a visual object in itself.
I understand why this might be frustrating to some people. But I thought that a big old book of font names would be pretty much a cop out. I felt like it doesn't really help the design dialog if everyone just starts using the same fonts as these big name designers. Maybe it's better that people can be influenced by the ideas or approach of the typefaces and then make their own decisions based on that?
So people may like that decision or not, people may like the book or not and I don't mind either way because everyone has opinions which are all equally valid.
But I am slightly saddened to read the above post that says about generating self-promotion. This was the last thing on my mind.
J
- rybo0
james very very admireable i am doing a simular project called Artism - Art for Autism please check it out www.echoaroundtown.co.uk/Artism/…