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The group meets again

Mar 24, ’10 1:21 PM

The dis­cus­sion today began with a brief look at what we are actu­ally doing: A mani­festo or some­thing else. The ideal­ism and pos­sibly wooly words of the First Thing First pos­i­tions, while being aims that we broadly sup­port as indi­vidu­als, are not real­ist­ic and do not make a last­ing dif­fer­ence to the way in which Graphic design­ers are viewed.

Organisations with the pur­pose of pro­mot­ing, sup­port­ing, edu­cat­ing but ulti­mately jus­ti­fy­ing a pro­fes­sion might have more long term influ­ence. This idea led to com­par­is­ons of the pro­fes­sion­al world of archi­tec­ture and the world of the Graphic Designer. Could we have a Graphic Designers RIBA: RIBVIS? RIBDES? GESCOM?

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Political Posters

Mar 23, ’10 9:42 PM
A poster From the Conservative Party seen in 2009

More attract­ive than David Cameron’s photgraph?

I felt I was inev­it­ably going to write some­thing about mani­festoes, pro­fes­sion­al bod­ies or a uni­on for my essay as well as these top­ics being the main focus of the group dis­cus­sion but I have for­tu­nately(!?) found anoth­er top­ic I’m inter­ested in, although I’m still try­ing to work out exactly what my angle will be.

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What’s wrong with Gill Sans?

Mar 22, ’10 3:23 PM
Gill Sans

Gill Sans — not as good as I thought…

I’m not sure how I came across it in the course of look­ing for inform­a­tion on Design Discourse top­ics but I found this art­icle on GIll Sans. I recall hav­ing declared my love for this typeface quite loudly in the pub after our vis­it to decode at the V&A. High on swiftly drunk alco­hol and nervous sit­ting next to Paul McNeil, I feel I was maybe a little too free with my praise of this typeface and the force­ful­ness with which I expressed it. Reading this very inter­est­ing art­icle was a little sober­ing (no pun inten­ded) and I sud­denly feel the urge to track down some dif­fer­ent typefaces…

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