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Hi!
I'm a senior graphic designer and this is my last year...however, I have to do my thesis. First, I'm a person that really interesting in typographic, and my favorite typeface is Futura. So, first, my idea is a story/history about futura and why this typeface is so timeless and powerful.
However, I'm not sure about this idea. Since, many people have done a lot of typeface history. So...any suggestion? Please, I need to expand my idea.
Thank you so much for all the suggestion. :)
Broacher
11-05-2009, 01:55 AM
Hey! I'm a senior graphic designer too! (Cool!)
Except... I don't need to any thesis on typographic. I guess I haven't even done a lot of typeface history. But I agree that your suggestion is excellent. That is, the part where you say "I need to expand my idea".
I'm really sure that will work. Especially the 'I' part.
Futura... great face! I agree.
Hi, we are SENIOR haha :D
anyway, I think my idea is not strong enough, about history of futura typeface. :( so, I don't know how to make it more interesting and nobody never done it before.
Between, what are you doing for your thesis?
PrintDriver
11-05-2009, 02:19 AM
http://i39.tinypic.com/14b3u2u.jpg
budafist
11-05-2009, 02:58 AM
What is a senior graphic designer?
Broacher
11-05-2009, 01:16 PM
What we really need is a emoticon that captures the Mona Lisa smile.
BJMRGTIVR6
11-05-2009, 01:51 PM
perhaps do a story on Futura's evolution back in 1783 in Scotland. Most people don't even know that part of the history. The scotsman, Samuel (something cannot remember right now) created a simple form typeface. He hid it for fear of British retaliation and then many years later it was "discovered" and turned into the typeface we know today. That's the really short version but look it up and you can get an expanded read through
PrintDriver
11-05-2009, 01:54 PM
This is the definition of Thesis:
A position or proposition that a person (as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument.
Where does doing a paper about a font offer any argument?
CCericola
11-05-2009, 04:51 PM
Print beat me to it. A history of a typeface is not a thesis. Your thesis is your argument and you find resources and evidence to back it up. In your opinion did the font change something? create a movement? Cause the collapse of the serif?...And can you find evidence to support your claim?
Broacher
11-05-2009, 06:24 PM
Hey, we at least got a second post. That's above the forum average for most thesis trolling efforts.
Grfk Dzgn
11-05-2009, 11:48 PM
Taken on balance type deviations create distance, which in the long run, are favorable only to and for communication. Lesser impressions can be generally understood as being beneficial only to type and typography as a whole.
But don't social structures demand much much more?
Strong traditional values support curvatures. Not everything 'traditional' is as linear as you have been lead to believe. Perhaps social elegance is, and was, inflected in a strong cursive or even black letter typeface. Perhaps not. But if indeed such a typeface did / does inflect a particular element or a particular character of society - so too does the dynamic impact of a bold sans serif. Compressed or not.
But hey, what the h*ll, society moves on. Never to return to a day of civility or civil discourse. Today's typefaces are just grunts of commerce, to be precise - greed. Who's greed? Your greed. And, to a certain extant, your narcissism too.
Say it loud - say it proud. That's not a declaration of independence, that's a declaration of get the f*** out of my way. And what says that better than Futura ...or any other f'n strong sans serif typeface for that matter? (With or without it's cute little bells and whistles!)
Think about it. The last century was a broken century - stacked full of beaten generations. No eloquence, no civility, no embellishments what so ever! Money, guns, God, and a bold sans serif to say it all.
Hi! So, first, my idea is a story/history about futura and why this typeface is so timeless and powerful.
If you want to become a designer of any worth - stop the romantic notions. Instead, think of purpose. And I don't mean purpose in a utilitarian way - I mean 'purpose' as in purpose to all of humanity.