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Two things I know about design
Aug. 30th, 2009 10:07 pmthat a lot of people don't seem to agree with, however:
1.) Truly good design never gets boring. So maybe I should just trust my impulse to pick out Avenir from virtually every single list of typefaces I've found so far, and ignore all the people who say it's 'boring'. Yes, it's a classic, yes, it may have been used a lot - but it's quite simply an outstanding example of typeface design. (Then again, I can't afford Avenir anyway... it's in the three digits price range. *sigh*)
2.) This one has nothing to do with my application papers, nor with typefaces, but with a discussion about level/screen design for Knytt Stories I had on the Nifflas forum recently - and also with my liking things like medieval book illumination just as well as the minimalist page layouts and drawing style of Mohiro Kitoh: Very busy designs can be attractive. I absolutely do get the appeal of modernist simplicity (see my love of Kitoh), and am leaning towards it myself in most of my work, but I have a great appreciation for certain forms of 'clutteredness' that I won't deny in the name of any dogma.
1.) Truly good design never gets boring. So maybe I should just trust my impulse to pick out Avenir from virtually every single list of typefaces I've found so far, and ignore all the people who say it's 'boring'. Yes, it's a classic, yes, it may have been used a lot - but it's quite simply an outstanding example of typeface design. (Then again, I can't afford Avenir anyway... it's in the three digits price range. *sigh*)
2.) This one has nothing to do with my application papers, nor with typefaces, but with a discussion about level/screen design for Knytt Stories I had on the Nifflas forum recently - and also with my liking things like medieval book illumination just as well as the minimalist page layouts and drawing style of Mohiro Kitoh: Very busy designs can be attractive. I absolutely do get the appeal of modernist simplicity (see my love of Kitoh), and am leaning towards it myself in most of my work, but I have a great appreciation for certain forms of 'clutteredness' that I won't deny in the name of any dogma.
