… Colin McKay has some thoughts about design, data management, retail quirks, government communications and oddities … and written in Canada!
In Metropolis, a look at how type design and application has evolved over the past twenty five years. Kerrie Jacobs notes the challenges and the benefits of the computer revolution on a well-established trade based on artistry and manual skills.
” … What we are facing is a crisis of authority. The authority of the artist and the designer is every bit as challenged today as the authority of the scientist and the legal scholar. We are operating in an environment where the value of objective truth–and, for that matter, subjective truth–has been diminished. …
The new typographers I find online are the graphic-design equivalent of bloggers. Digital tools combined with the Internet have turned any number of isolated individuals into “foundries” just as the same technology has transformed millions of individuals into “publishers” or “pundits.” Some of them are impressively talented, others are not, but there’s no hierarchy. Authority is elusive and up for grabs. There is no official anything. What is the truth? It’s hard to say. What is a typeface? Anything you want it to be. (Metropolis)
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