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Unique?  How is something that every “natural” food vendor and landscape design company uses unique.  I could see if it was some custom font, then yes it is unique.. but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Yep- me too – to me the perfect example of what cad systems are for – not a replacement, but a complement to the process. A much more fluid process than we would have imagined in ‘the old days’! ha!
 

Im not some over indulgent font dictator.  I spend no more time (see comment about the 7 seven extra seconds it takes to change a font) than someone who uses papyrus.  I only use 1 font, it is set on my character styles, so in reality it takes me less time.  Im not a plant wizard, so now since i don’t spend all my time picking out a zany font or…[Read more]

Well its Iowa State, and No.  I dont use hand graphics, and 99.9% of  computer related knowledge is self/peer taught.

you dont want to be a graphic designer.. how do you present your work, a roll of trace and some crayola markers? You like a aesthetic things, yet you dont like graphic design.. um hello.. something seems a bit off with that statement.  Your mocking attitude is a bit concerning.  I wish you good luck.

Okay i get the papyrus comment, but if your stuff is poorly laid out, peppered with a bad font, how is that going to help your clients get the “message” across.  your lax attitude towards graphics concerns me.  I am a bad/horrible writer, but i guess i can disguise it with a great font. dont writing and font go hand in hand?  i am not writing in…[Read more]

choosing the wrong font is similar to choosing the wrong plant

Yes, like adding the wrong ingredient to a dish is similar to selecting the wrong chair for a living room.
 
That you feel so strongly about fonts, and have your deep set preferences is all fine. And if it enables you to submit your designs with added confidence and pride that’s…[Read more]

You never took a hand graphics class or photoshop? I find that hard to believe. Go UI! haha.

No! To your question is this graphic design…unless you are designing space for Clue or Tron. haha. Oh man. I can just picture you…what we are going to design a park? Okay…let me see here…which font best says…. Really? I don’t want to be a graphic designer…I like to see beautiful spaces for people to interact with each other, nature and…[Read more]

I like this too. These are just tools to get ideas across. The words should be legible and should not distract from the message they are relaying…your design and how it will be used.
We visited a large firm in Seattle and one of the principles spoke with us about hand graphics. He said that not only can he not use ACAD very well…but he is…[Read more]

Isn’t all design graphic design?  I’m just thinking of the checklist of the projects that I had at university:  Plans (text on there), sections (text saying whats going on in the sections), perspectives (captions), and concept statements (all text). Everything is about graphic communication.  Yes, I start a project thinking about what font I’m go…[Read more]

NOOOO. Go to the NL!

But i guess thats my point.  At least at my university, we were never “taught” graphics.  I guess it seems like you are suggesting that if we dont talk about it, it will go away?  I hope I am miss understanding you.  I really do believe that making a poor graphic decision will only hurt my design.  If i have some amazing design, that is LEED trip…[Read more]

K. sorry.

I knew I used the font–I was talking about my hand lettering… easy there big fella.

I have to say…it warms my heart to see the men that were seriously agitated enough to try to stop a man with an ax! Including trying to wrestle it from him.

Henry:
 
Why is it rubbish?  

I am not denying that there are not “bigger fish to fry” or that Big Jim Associates failures are my gains, I am just suggesting that neglecting simple things like fonts is not and option or excuse for someone calling themselves a designer.  Saying that it does not matter, or you that we should focus or attention on bigger things could become the…[Read more]

Well unless you are frank gehry, i think going out of our way to change the font ( i mean it takes approx 2 seconds.. 5 if you need to change it to bold, 7 if you mess with tracking, kerning, et cetera) is something we need to care about.  If we stop caring about the font, then whats next, planting a an invasive forest of Kudzu, just because i…[Read more]

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