http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-2266 What John Maeda did wrong at RISD  ¶  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:00:40 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-2266 [...] Natalia Ilyin (q.v.): [...] [...] Natalia Ilyin (q.v.): [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-2249 As Margaret Cho would say but Steven Heller won’t: ‘Really chinky fonts’  ¶  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:13:58 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-2249 [...] Insufferable design intellectual Steven Heller again snuffs the life out of the room, here (in record time) in a brief post about chop-suey signage type that never musters the guts to call them what Margaret Cho does: REALLY CHINKY FONTS. Too genteel for the critic emeritus whom editors hire to write one-third of all design critiques, or an aperçu he won’t acknowledge because somebody else came up with it first? [...] [...] Insufferable design intellectual Steven Heller again snuffs the life out of the room, here (in record time) in a brief post about chop-suey signage type that never musters the guts to call them what Margaret Cho does: REALLY CHINKY FONTS. Too genteel for the critic emeritus whom editors hire to write one-third of all design critiques, or an aperçu he won’t acknowledge because somebody else came up with it first? [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-2238 ‘Eye’ 76 & 77  ¶  Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:05:50 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-2238 [...] could be seen as a typical Heller backlash against an author who beat Heller to an original idea. (He’s committed that sin before.) That still may be true, but his criticism of the book is [...] [...] could be seen as a typical Heller backlash against an author who beat Heller to an original idea. (He’s committed that sin before.) That still may be true, but his criticism of the book is [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-1814 Designers as functional illiterates ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:32:37 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-1814 [...] Natalia Ilyin (q.v.): [...] [...] Natalia Ilyin (q.v.): [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Title as punchline ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:02:41 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-1720 [...] history are in there, again suggesting a clean linear progression that never actually happened, as Natalia Ilyin has pointed out. The book plays this star card so strongly that the cover shows six (illegible, all-caps) lines of [...] [...] history are in there, again suggesting a clean linear progression that never actually happened, as Natalia Ilyin has pointed out. The book plays this star card so strongly that the cover shows six (illegible, all-caps) lines of [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 Robert Brownjohn quotes ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:58:40 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-1681 [...] anything. Recall that the field of graphic-design biography, which King has pioneered, is something Heller decried, more or less because it hadn’t occurred to him, meaning he missed his big chance managed to [...] [...] anything. Recall that the field of graphic-design biography, which King has pioneered, is something Heller decried, more or less because it hadn’t occurred to him, meaning he missed his big chance managed to [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Undiscussed ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:19 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-1267 [...] Any intentional sequence that defies the design-canon narrative. Let’s say you’re the next David Carson, or half of that. And somehow Steven Heller discovers you. He can’t really write about your work because he’d have to show many little snippets from it to make a case. We know that showing little snippets is the problem. But – and here we diverge from the issue of illustration – if you aren’t part of the accepted design narrative, which assumes a continuous evolution from Lascaux to present, you won’t get written about, either. (Ask Natalia Ilyin.) [...] [...] Any intentional sequence that defies the design-canon narrative. Let’s say you’re the next David Carson, or half of that. And somehow Steven Heller discovers you. He can’t really write about your work because he’d have to show many little snippets from it to make a case. We know that showing little snippets is the problem. But – and here we diverge from the issue of illustration – if you aren’t part of the accepted design narrative, which assumes a continuous evolution from Lascaux to present, you won’t get written about, either. (Ask Natalia Ilyin.) [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Antipoynorism ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Mon, 14 May 2007 18:23:17 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/28/iamw3/#comment-936 [...] Centrally, though, Poynor just doesn’t like electronic media. He doesn’t. You know how I can’t stand it when people top-post? He can’t stand it when one interleave-posts, getting angrier and angrier (and sounding less and less sane) in an old E-mail exchange we had. He tried out this blogging thing for a while and, instead of ceasing to write for sites that don’t pay him (a solid reason in itself), he was unwise enough to let his true feelings show. Your writing doesn’t count unless it is deemed worthy of dead trees – deemed thus by him, or Steven Heller (another avowed enemy of the Web), or, importantly, an editor, especially an editor of a book anthology like Looking Closer. [...] [...] Centrally, though, Poynor just doesn’t like electronic media. He doesn’t. You know how I can’t stand it when people top-post? He can’t stand it when one interleave-posts, getting angrier and angrier (and sounding less and less sane) in an old E-mail exchange we had. He tried out this blogging thing for a while and, instead of ceasing to write for sites that don’t pay him (a solid reason in itself), he was unwise enough to let his true feelings show. Your writing doesn’t count unless it is deemed worthy of dead trees – deemed thus by him, or Steven Heller (another avowed enemy of the Web), or, importantly, an editor, especially an editor of a book anthology like Looking Closer. [...]

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