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https://www.linotype.com/1245820/din-1451-mittelschrift-product.html?format=ot-ttf&branding=cyrillic
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Okay this ad campaign is actually great and every time I see it in a Tube station I laugh a little bit because it just reminds you how terrifically bizarre the human race is
Original manuscript of the novel “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac which he wrote in a 3 week session. Apparently the last bit was eaten by a dog.
“…how can a designer plan an annual report without some knowledge of economics? Lay out a book without an inter- est in, if not a passion for, literature? Design a logo for a high-tech company without some familiarity with science?
Obviously, they can and do. Some designers fill in their educational gaps as they go along; some just fake it. But most of the mediocre design today comes from designers who are faithfully doing as they were taught in school: they worship at the altar of the visual.”
“Modern design education, on the other hand, is essentially value-free: every problem has a purely visual solution that exists outside any cultural context.”
Michael Bierut, “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”
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