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The Aim of Archer

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

On AIGA’s main page, this article on the typeface Archer sits on display. Look familiar? I began to wonder if I was the only one who had noticed this typeface absolutely everywhere. Apparently, the author, a grad student at MICA, noticed it too. She outlines Archer’s beginnings as a commission from the Martha Stewart Magazine, [...]

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Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, “We don’t serve your type.”

Monday, February 15, 2010

If you call yourself a graphic designer and have used the typeface Comic Sans in any of your work, I am sorry to say you are now part of an endangered species in a global and unforgiving community of designers and self-proclaimed ‘typophiles’. Part of surviving college graphic design courses is accepting that Comic Sans [...]

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Invisible Design

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Craig Ward is an Illustrator and a Typographer who did this poster for Bucks New University, UK. It says BAD TYPOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE and behind it says GOOD TYPOGRAPHY IS INVISIBLE. How true, I wonder how many hours have been spent on making design look as though it has always been that way, surely it [...]

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