DesignInquiry
Intro to the Topic:
Fail Again.
DesignInquiry 2008, July 20-25,
Vinalhaven, Maine:
All around us, people are making mistakes with typography.
A multitude of typefaces is available to anyone with access
to a computer and at the push of a few buttons you can change typesize, leading and spacing, stretch, distort and destroy
old rules.
Insults to typography are everywhere: The old arts are
being redefined from scratch. More authors increasingly design their own text in which we also recognize how the pace of information—in magazines, on TV, the web, the mobile phone—has changed the way we read.
We want to inquire how these design failures, these errors
of typography, pacing and layout are evidence not of ignorance but progress.
Dear reader,
i know you must be there but i don’t know who you are.