While reading How to be Famous, I realized I am probably never going to be a famous graphic designer. And that’s okay. I still found this to be a very relevant article for me to read. Anything that compares slide show presentations to a Hitchcock movie can’t be bad. His ending seven points on “How to Do Great Work” were the big take aways for me. In the end you have to do a lot of work to get better and get known. And develop a strong fall back design you can use. I haven’t found my style solution yet but I’m sure it will comes as I do more time.
Vladimir Nabokov: Father of Hypertext
And so we meet again hypertext. Considering I just wrote a paper that addressed hypertext, I’m pretty disappointed that I haven’t heard of Pale Fire before now. I think the concept behind the book is great. Many authors have used the technique of fictional ‘writers’ as a part of their story. I definitely agree that it takes a lot of thought to go between these two types of writing. I’d like to know more about Nabokov’s creative process. I do get the author’s point and connectivity and fluid design although it is a little rough.
I hate ITC Garamond
Either you understand that some people have strong feelings about typeface or you don’t. As someone who has tried to explain my anger over a typeface before, I do sympathize with the author. I think I’m rather indifferent to ITC Garamond. That being said, I wouldn’t want to read an entire book with that as the font. Commercial typefaces are always going to get a lot of negative view points; isn’t that right Helvetica? “..The Resulting mutation become a part of the global landscape, seeming no less impregnable and unchanging than the Soviet empire.” That seems a little dramatic. The good news is that almost everything eventually changes and falls out of style. Just be careful what font you chose and know what you’re using it for.
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