Words Into Type
8th September 2007
Read it. Steven Heller talks about typography. Jonathan Barnbook, for example, is a perfect postmodern typographer:
In fact, once they have been decoded, Barnbrook’s distinctive style can be appreciated as a personal expression in the service of mass communication, usually containing a social or political agenda.
In other words, he’s a prog dork determined to infect the world of type as similar prog dorks have infected art and fashion and politics. Indeed, most of the article is an almost self-parodying example of modern artsy-fartsy prose — so don’t bother reading it if you have a low pain theshhold for that sort of thing. But if you can stand it, it’s entertaining.