ALEX P

adobe fonts come with the adobe creative suite. or go to dafont.com. and when you are done, just simply “create outlines” and save as pdf.. then you will not have any problems with people not having “your” font.

haha.

 
Is everything a joke with you Heather?  I get that you dont care about graphic design, fonts, non default settings, design, in depth arguments, computers, adobe products, non hand rendering, aesthetics, turning off hyph-en-ation, et cetra.  

the art institute!  
Wicker Park is very trendy neighborhood area (marc jacobs shop, and such) if your into that kinda thing
Pizzeria Uno is good, sometimes a long line, but worth it. 
McCormick Tribune Campus Center Illinois Institute of Technology- designed by Rem Koolhaas
 

False Flat_ why dutch design is so good

yes!!!

Mosaics by West8
Groundswell
Large Parks
 
no books on hand rendering are needed. 

I haven’t use CAD for a long time…:P

umm??? how do you do CD’s?

My job now is just that Tabitha, and I could not have asked for a better job.  I love it!  I will look into that book, as i feel it might be one of those biblicalesque books for font crazies like myself.  Yes, i want to be a landscape starchitect, and maybe this is my actual calling, landscape fontitecture… who knows??? I clearly understand th…[Read more]

Whats with that hate for people who recently graduated?  When has being a debby downer ever paid off “graphics dont matter, they wont read anything on your drawings” Oh thats a real positive outlook for LA.  Yes I’m Naive, and who cares?
 
“No ones really all that special”  oh thats really positive, well i guess that is the only encouragement i n…[Read more]

Douglas- I mildly agree with you, but arial was “invented” post helvetica, ie post olmstead. It is more than being trendy for me. I just like the look of the letters, i mean have you seen the lower case a.. now thats something to write home about.  ps. i never mentioned that i was avant garde.. just a lover of good font.  I dont really care that p…[Read more]

Why not just use cad as a base for drawings…kill two birds with one stone (or two depending on your design) I dont like hand rendering, but it sometimes looks good with a fusion between hand and computer. Its the ultimate duality between man and machine.

You can call yourself whatever you want… see custodial engineers or sandwich artists at Subway as case studies.  I consider myself a designer (not a garden or landscape designer).  We do everything from graphics to conceptual and abstract thinking.  Why worry about labels, its not middle school.  Just because you are not a “landscape arc…[Read more]

In a day when everything has the suffix -scape attached to it, it makes perfect sense to add scape to my name.  i mean just pick up LAM, and you will be bombarded by endless -scapes… “trendscape” gag me!

can you be grandfathered into to sustainability?

Im sorry, I did not want to assume you were married.
 
The point of the post: yes, i am passionate about font, no I am not asking for a pat on the back for being a crazy font guy.  I don’t REALLY care if you use papyrus, because of one of the first post on this thread.  Your “decision” on font doesn’t REALLY effect me in all actuality, but aes…[Read more]

what would you say to a client who rents their space and has the same question?

the dichotomy continues 

gimme a break, miss smith.

this is conceptually confusing. just because i just graduated does not mean i dont know anything about fonts.  also just because someone might be a principle at some firm does not make them the know all end all. I am NOT the only only one who feels this way about papyrus. but i do like the idea of being some sort of academic about font usage…[Read more]

What does that mean?