Typography
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- imavery0
Just for the record, the abuse I suggested was a joke for fuck sake
- forcetwelve0
seriously: muller brockmann / max bill / wim crouwel / build / and all major type foundries
- forcetwelve0
fire her
- 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!
- tOki0
One wonders, did designers get better budgets in the 70s and 80s because they had to spend such long amounts of time setting type heh
- imavery0
You could make her produce a faux magazine on her weekends, then when she turns it in on Monday, you scream "I already have toilet paper to wipe my ass with" and throw the prints back at her.
- I was actually thinking of something along those lines, minus the abuse :PtOki
- the abuse creates character, and it'll make her try harder, after a few tears, of course j/kimavery
- lol telling her she needs to learn the basics after 5 years of being a designer is insult enough methinks :PtOki
- ouch, 5 years? i can only imagine the work you have cut out for yourself. Might have to make her pull some rybo, that was low, I knowimavery
- was low, I knowimavery
- MrOneHundred0
Is she single?
- Shes a chinese immigrant too. Love you long time.tOki
- then she probably needs a visa, score!imavery
- hahakrokdesign
- ukit0
- echojaylarson
- oooh, nice image.MrOneHundred
- the refresh in the < menu was overworked.jaylarson
- I have to admit, this is *the* best image of this particular book cover.braaad
- jaylarson0
www.ilovetypoigraphy.com is a good up-and-coming online resource
- http://ilovetypograp…utopian
- oh man. bed time. yikes!jaylarson
- tOki0
Cool I'll check these out!
- utopian0
Plenty of books, posters, design, etc....