It is widely accepted that the main role of any designer is to visually communicate. It is thus important to make any viewable composition enticing, so that it arises curiosity leading the viewer...
An article that helped me understand better the topic on typographic readability and legibility is an online article written by Jeremy Loyd. Although my focus in mainly on editorial design I decided to...
The works of art are Boris Zvorykin’s, The Struggle, and El Lissitzky’s, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, both produced in 1919. Furthermore both posters are dealing with war propaganda yet are...
In order to continue the discussion from my previous blog on designing to communicate, we need to familiarise ourselves with the difference between legibility and readability. It would be appropriate to start off...
Does type have to be legible to communicate? Before actually tackling whether type has to be legible in order to communicate, it would be best to start off with explaining a little bit...
Quoting the Beatles, Heller (2015:1) questions whether one is really needed at sixty-four when the generation reaching this age are still as active four years before, pointing out that once one turn sixty-five,...
Proposal Title The Importance of Typography as a Legible Element in Editorial Design AIMS What do you intend to investigate? Make sure that your hypothesis is not obviously true (or false!). My...