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In a 2004 interview Vier5 said, “you cannot work with modern pictures and at the same time use the typefaces of the last 50 years. The time for these typefaces is gone.”
On one level, I'm right there with them. I'm all for forging ahead...
But most of the fonts I use are time-tested and classic. Goudy Old Style is so beautiful and elegant, why use some wierd "modern" illegible font?
On one level, I'm right there with them. I'm all for forging ahead...
But most of the fonts I use are time-tested and classic. Goudy Old Style is so beautiful and elegant, why use some wierd "modern" illegible font?
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Re: Using "old" typefaces in modern times...
Mon, May 14, 2007 - 7:19 PMI think rules like that lead to narrow thinking and staid solutions. :) contrast can be striking, ironic, and sometimes oddly complimentary since all trends are just recycled from the past anyway.
I think it's absurd to declare any typeface "gone". It ignores the wisdom and talent of the designers decades before us. There's no reason you can't have both, IMO. Yes, Goudy is beautiful. and so is Mrs. Eaves. One is not inherently better than the other. :)
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Re: Using "old" typefaces in modern times...
Mon, May 21, 2007 - 12:18 PMWell, that's total BS. There are so many excellent design examples that juxtapose old fonts (think Victorian or western-looking fonts) with modern designs. And it's not like we're the first to explore the mix of old and new. Designers in the 60s were doing this, like Saul Bass and Peter Max.
Who is this Vier5 anyway? He/she needs to get out more, or at the very least, study the history of design. Sheesh! ;-) -
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Re: Using "old" typefaces in modern times...
Mon, May 21, 2007 - 8:24 PMI'm not sure who Vier5 is, but look at their Web site:
www.vier5.de
Then look at the samples of their "work." Looks like scrawl to me.
::: dry heaves :::
Anyway...old and new can be mixed successfully...we don't need anyone dictating to us what they feel should be in style or common practice.
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Re: Using "old" typefaces in modern times...
Tue, May 22, 2007 - 10:47 AMwww.designobserver.com/archiv...59.html
I admit that I have a hard time taking these guys seriously. Visually, their work is total crap in my opinion. But the idea is intriguing. The only aesthetically pleasing new typefaces I've seen are all so "futuristic" and spacey looking or something. But I guess that "classic" look only comes with age?
