When I told myself that I needed to blog tonight (I mean I had already done the reading), I really did not (still do not) want to. I'm tired, it has been a rough day, and, quite frankly, the reading I did for tonight's blog left me with nothing. Not sure how I ended up with TWO readings that left me feeling nothing two nights in a row, but it has happened.
I read Dean Allen's "Reading Design" for tonight, and I highlighted all of three passages. From what I can tell, Allen is ranting about web designers lack of consideration for the reader when they choose how to represent fonts. Allen argues that the education of many of the students he teaches "had plainly focused away from what I consider the primary goal of communication design: to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read. To use design to communicate" ("Reading Design").
The one thing that I did find useful about the article was Allen's "An Entirely Incomplete List of Things a Non-Illiterate Designer Should Know Before Being a Designer" at the very end of that article. That is worth printing and putting in a place where you'll always see it if you have plans to be or are a designer.
That is all I have to say about this article. It ain't much, but I at least I read and blogged.
I read Dean Allen's "Reading Design" for tonight, and I highlighted all of three passages. From what I can tell, Allen is ranting about web designers lack of consideration for the reader when they choose how to represent fonts. Allen argues that the education of many of the students he teaches "had plainly focused away from what I consider the primary goal of communication design: to make vital, engaging work intended above all to be read. To use design to communicate" ("Reading Design").
The one thing that I did find useful about the article was Allen's "An Entirely Incomplete List of Things a Non-Illiterate Designer Should Know Before Being a Designer" at the very end of that article. That is worth printing and putting in a place where you'll always see it if you have plans to be or are a designer.
That is all I have to say about this article. It ain't much, but I at least I read and blogged.
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