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Hi Tabitha,  is there a reason why I couldn’t just export the sketchup scenes at tiff’s rather than jpegs?  Skipping the photoshop step all together?  I’m guessing there is, but just wanted to know the reasoning.  
Also, I noticed my free version of sketchup 8  does not have cmyk color options, is this a big issue?  I probably used the ‘colo…[Read more]

its like a horrible disease.  The teacher likes it, so everyone wanting to impress the teacher with a lack of graphic capability uses the font.  then people like me who actually try in the graphic design department get the snub from the teacher for having a board that is too well laid out, or dare is say aesthetic.

I just looked at your website, and realized why you said what you said. I think its odd that you used it and you didnt even know it.  You would not use an invasive tree/shurb and not know it, would you?  Or destroy a native prairie for a development would you?  being conscious of all design decisions is something i thought “designers” were su…[Read more]

I would trust the principle.

well i guess if you dont stand for something you will fall for anything, right?  Im not one of those LA’s that is obsessed with the latest LEED standard, or how “green” something can be, or the latest “sustainable” gadget.  I believe that graphic communication is more than just something you decorate the cake with.  I just find it odd, that as “d…[Read more]

It does depend on whether you want people to remember what you’ve written. Recent research indicates that you are more likely to remember text if it is a little more difficult to read. Comic sans is apparently a good font for retention. I recall struggling to concentrate on a large slab of specifications written in a narrow text many years ago -…[Read more]

It does depend on whether you want people to remember what you’ve written. Recent research indicates that you are more likely to remember text if it is a little more difficult to read. Comic sans is apparently a good font for retention. I recall struggling to concentrate on a large slab of specifications written in a narrow text many years ago -…[Read more]

The funny thing to me is that this whole thread is mostly about the fonts that OTHER LAs are using. Now for me, who spends half his time in a civil office dealing with plans by others including LAs, I am directly affected by it, but how much do the fonts of other LAs affect any of us other than looking better or worse than us? I’m probably the…[Read more]

There was another thread about hand lettering, and now this one.   I just discovered that not only do I use Papyrus often, my hand lettering even looks like it.  Forever un-cool will I be, young skywalkers. 
Here are a few I think we need to develop:
1.  “Carpenter Gothic”– best when used with a dull knife-sharpened carpenter’s pencil, works well…[Read more]

lol, this cracks me up.
Where you’ll have project pinups in my studio classes, 3 of say maybe a batch of 12 will use this font…and the teacher commends us for using it. I particularly think this font wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so overused. You can always spend time going through the thousands of free fonts online…;)

haha…

The first principal I worked for despised papyrus. The second LA I worked for insisted on using nothing but papyrus. I found this distinction to be quite humorous.
Personally, I think papyrus looks like a third grade font from 1983, the kind of thing you’d use on a homework assignment to make an aged pirate map stained with tea and burnt edges,…[Read more]

Agreed.  With autocad e-transmittals you can’t count on another firm having all your fancy fonts so you must stick with standard, preloaded fonts……Alex, I find it odd that with all the failings of the industry, the ineptitude of ASLA and their magazine, and the dire economic conditions affecting our profession as a whole, you choose to make…[Read more]

I’m looking at it more from a professional practice issue. Not everybody has all the fonts loaded on their machine, and many do not print well. Some are also very illegible when running prints or copies of prints (remeber, original documents are hardly ever sent into the field, and are more likely bad copies). I don’t know how many times I had to…[Read more]

I understand your point, I am just one of those people who wants to make the world a more well designed place.  Yes, that maybe a bit naive, but im 23.  I just dont like it when it makes our profession as a whole look bad.  yes Big Jim Assoc. can use some bad font, but why?  I guess thats my main question.  I guess i had a revelation when i real…[Read more]