So, last night I attended the Design Madison meeting which included a talk given by Font Bureau Designer, Cyrus Highsmith. I was skeptical that an hour long discussion on type could be interesting, but knowing that type is a design weak-spot of mine, I hoped it would be educational. It was. I didn't exactly have an epiphany about how to use type better, but I did learn about the process of creating a typeface. . . something previously foreign to me. I found it especially interesting to hear how Cyrus does all of his drawing in black and white, and how when designing a type he concentrates on the white space more than the black.
Mental note: look up W.A. Dwiggins (artist), Lovecraft (novelist), Paul Klee's "The Thinking Eye", Ben Shahn.
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