In the short time that I’ve spent not just in the design world, but spent working with people in the design world, I’ve quickly come to realize that a large percent of non-designers don’t want you to think, they just want you to do. I’ve come to the conclusion this occurs far more if you’re young, and especially a student of design. Once someone finds this out, whether it be a friend or relative, they’re often then inclined to have you do something for them. Notice how I said do something, and not design something, because there is a very large difference.
Even as young designers, we’re taught, or should be taught to think before we do. Anyone can do, but what sets us apart is our ability to think, weigh options, research and eventually come up with what we feel and know is the best possible solution. As a non-designer, most people are accustom to simply doing, and throwing all kinds of thinking aside. They don’t question or ponder, they simply execute and move on, sacrificing quality for quantity and haste.
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Typography is not black and white, vanilla, mundane or any other word you come up with that describes the word boring. Can it be? Well, certainly it can be, but that doesn’t mean it has to be or that you can’t make it do something special. Stefan Sagmeister displays the concept perfectly in his book titled ‘Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far’. This book by Sagmeister can not only make an incredible statement to a young designer such as myself, but as an added bonus, it has the greatest packaging I’ve ever come across.
This will be the first in a series of several posts on the recent film documentary, Helvetica. In this first edition I will look solely at the push and pull the movie provides, more specifically, modern vs post modern and pro-Helvetica vs anti-Helvetica.
