…speaking of writing and books, I just stumbled on a piece of writing regarding an old book about typography called A Short History of the Printed Word. Textpattern’s Dean Allen says designers should “approach their work now and again as being written rather than assembled,” and “read what you are designing.”
His “An Entirely Incomplete List of Things a Non–Illiterate Designer Should Know Before Being a Designer,” includes commandments such as:
- That letters are not pictures of things, but things
- That words are not things, but pictures of things
and
- The knowledge to back up design decisions clearly without falling into a fog of hidden meaning, or so–called “creativity”
It’s a worthy read for any designers -AM
»full article by Dean Allen, at A List Apart
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