Michael Bierut looks at design through several different lenses. When he wrote about Nabokav’s novel as being a well-designed piece of literature, it made me think of one of the designer interviews that I watched earlier in the semester. One of the writer’s for pixar talked about how design and storytelling are very similar artforms. Both need structure and both focus on communicating a point. This perspective of design as storytelling is also used by Bierut to describe Nabokav’s novel.
Bierut’s essay about the Garamond font was too much for me. I can appreciate how a designer must have a very strong attention to detail, but if you can’t get past the details to appreciate something much greater that the detail, you have a problem. On the other hand, I guess this is also an important reality for people behind design to be aware of. If you want your content to be seen and appreciated, you better design it well.