Helvetica

In class this week we watched a film about the font type of Helvetica. I had never really paid much attention to types of fonts that I see every day: on commercials, on buildings, on the internet, on posters, etc. After watching this film I found myself looking at a poster and thinking to myself, "oh, that's helvetica font." Also before watching this film I had no idea about seriffs and sans seriffs, and now I notice fonts with them all the time. Actually, when I first started typing this blog my first thought was that this font had seriffs. What type of font adverstisements used never really mattered to me before. Now I see how much of a difference it makes. Helvetica is very clean cut and modern, and makes things pop.


Also in class this week we were told to research David Carson. I found a lot of his stuff sent a very interesting message, but I thought that his work was kind of busy and hard to read. No doubt it is amazing and I wish that I was as good as he is, but a lot of his work I found hard to read. His messages are also hard to understand sometimes, and what the piece was for. I noticed in Google images a lot of his work was book covers, and I never really realized that books had covers like that, and how much work it takes for one thing like that.


I hope that I can learn more about graphic design during this project, and I want to use David Carson as an example. I never had any experience previous to this class doing graphic design or photoshop, but I'm learning a lot.