Bad typography design

For our seminar on 11/11/2011 we had to bring three examples of good and three examples of bad typography. These were my examples, the top line being good type. A point that was raised during the seminar was, was a measure of how good the typography design is, how legible the words are. I would disagree with this, because some typography design, hasn’t actually been designed to be legible, they are using the letters to draw with rather than to communicate. I think that this subject requires…

Erik Brandt is a graphic designer and educator who has been active since 1994. He is currently Chair of the Design Department and Professor of Graphic Design at MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art and Design) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and curated Ficciones Typografika , a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a public space. Educated internationally, his career began as a cartoonist in Japan in 1994, and has since found…

Let's talk about graphic design. This first poster is an example of bad poster design. This is a pretty bad one. It kind of looks like they made this design in Word. The fonts they used all have really high x-heights(the lower case letters are almost as tall as the capital letters) which is usually the kind of font you'd use if you were going to have a lot of really small text, unless it was on purpose. Nothing in this poster design looks like it's on purpose though. The designer also…

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terrible color palette and too much text

Theres some crap out there too. Most of it seems to be a result of lack of effort or pride in ones work: