Typography
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- vespa0
If she is a Chinese immigrant you mind need to put yourself in her shoes and appreciate that her understanding of typography might be different to yours. You might suck at laying out in Hanzi.
It is something you should have been able to pick up on before hiring but do not despair, she may well be a fast learner and if you don't bully her too much she'll be keen to improve!
I remember a light turning on in my head when, after 3 years at design school learning nothing due to getting trashed, a kind soul at work took me through the principles of typographic heirarchy. Now of course I am a design goddess however I had to eat and poo Muller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design and it hurt.
Go through something obvious like a good newpaper layout and how its typographic heirarchy takes your eye around the page at a distance. Make up your own lessons for her. It will be your chance to work out how much you really know!
- forcetwelve0
fire her
- forcetwelve0
seriously: muller brockmann / max bill / wim crouwel / build / and all major type foundries
- imavery0
Just for the record, the abuse I suggested was a joke for fuck sake
- horton0
cool. can i get hired to study typography on your payroll?
- Milan0
how the fuck can one be a graphic designer without knowing anything about typography?
- son0
- dude, thats pictograms.akrokdesign
- obvious you are who this is forson
- akrokdesign0
- now, there is one or two things i could say about that fu typeface. anyway. this book is for beginners.akrokdesign
- http://www.hennessey…akrokdesign
- stewdio0
I believe the original Freddy G. quote was something more to the effect of "anyone who would letterspace blackletter would *fuck* sheep." I mean, seriously. Goudy was a hot-shit womanizing type designer cutting a name for himself in NYC—during the roaring 20's even. Does a city slicker really carry "stealing sheep" in their bag of idioms? Or is it more likely that he saw some offensive kerning and thought "Wow. Look at this god awful type. Sheep fuckers. All of them." Can anyone shine some light on this?
(And admittedly, I have committed many a type crime myself.)
- SteveZissou0
"Shes a chinese immigrant too. Love you long time." - sounds like it's you who needs the education, you ignorant cunt.
- toki is chinese. Not sure if that make it better lolpango
- NopeSteveZissou
- so.... black people can use racist words towards them self but chinese can't? racist? lolpango
- Wow, can of worms! Lol...but I don't think the speaker's ethnicity matters (strictly), black or otherwise..SteveZissou
- Just making sure. cuz the rule of such subject is still very vague in the general public level.pango
- anyway. i don't think he's an ignorant cunt. just cunt. :Dpango
- :-)SteveZissou
- OSFA0
- freedom0
I hope you hired her for something other than general designer.