Article on font and design

On fonts:  After reading this article and watching Helvetica in class I have become more aware of the fonts in society and how they add or take away from the meaning of the words, and how they make you feel. Simple things like font size, style, curve all make a huge difference when you see it so frequently. I have started to notice good and bad layouts of programs or websites. These things are woven into our society and are meant to just blend in with our surrounding but just stand out enough that we don't get overly consumed or distracted. If something is a boring heavy font no one will want to read it but if it is an important text that is important to take into consideration.


Design : This article talks about specifically London and how they ruined street sign designs. Bad design comes in many forms. Things that are unsafe. Things that don’t work properly, or are unnecessarily complicated. Things that are ethically or environmentally unsound. Crimes against design are different. They deprive us of the joy of great design, by wrecking or replacing it. The road signage system designed by Jock Kinkier and Margaret Calvert between 1957 and 1967 included nothing showy about it. Those signs were models of logic and legibility in a pleasing, but unobtrusive style. They were everything that intelligently designed road signs should be. Somehow someone messed up the signs but making the D the first letter in diverge cyclist much much bigger than the rest making it look clumsy and distracting.

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Everyone is Altered

Special effects aren't just used to create huge explosions or herds of dinosaurs that trample everything in their path. They also can and do take pimples off of teen stars, erase years off actors' faces, and elongate bodies to create slimmer physiques. Nobody looks like what you see on TV and in the movies; everybody is altered. It creates real identity problems for girls when growing up. We see these nice bubbly women on tv and in magazines and think that everyone does or should look like that, and that anyone who doesn't inst "normal". Girls think they have to be that skinny, tall. They have to buy certain clothes. It also introduces the concept of the surveyed and the surveyor early on. In media women play the passive role only looking good for the men that are constantly surveying them. Young girls get used to being an object to be looked at. There are not many realistic or unpolished celebrities for women to look up to. Now more than ever there are make up tutorials, water proof makeup, make up you can sleep in. Only promoting this facade young women can not live up to.  Why don't we embrace fresh clean skin? When did the obsession for perfection trump reality?