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A Quick Tip from BrandiSea: Be A Typographer [sabbatical week] – Episode 109
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:02:44
Publish Date: 2019-08-08 21:39:38
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This Sabbatical week is from a past YouTube episode (#111) on why being a typographer is important.

 

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BrandiSea: (00:03)
Hey, I’m Brandi Sea and you’re listening to episode one o nine of design speaks. This week is a sabbatical week. So we have a design tip for you from a, what am I, old youtube videos. So this week we’re going to be talking about why it’s important to be obsessed with or at least be interested in and try to get good at typography. Here you go. Hey guys, welcome to design tip Tuesday. This week’s design tip is be a typographer. So I’ve often been asked like, how do I know a novice designer from an expert designer or what makes a good design and how can I tell just by looking at it and time and time again, the answer I come back to is the typography, which is how the person used their type work, their type faces, their fonts, the space in between letters, all of those things. That’s really key to being a great designer.

If you did not know how to be a typographer, you will fail. So I was, I was watching um, 101 Dalmatians with some friends the other night and I was able to identify the style of typeface that they were using in the credits as a sixties style typeface. And one of my girlfriends said, man, I wish I could do that. That’s so cool. But it’s, it was kind of just like, well, it is cool. But the reason that I do that and the reason I have that skill is because I’ve trained my eye to recognize type faces because they’re so important in your work. The era that they come from, the style that they’re created in the kind of thing they’re created for is all really important to know. The difference between a headline type face and a body copy type face will make all the difference in your work fall in love with type.

I know it sounds like a really geeky thing to do, but if you can be a true topographer, your work will excel above so many HACCP designers out there. And I promise that you’ll be really excited about things like type faces someday if you can really get into this. So set yourself apart, be a topographer practice, learn, look at books and all kinds of stuff to figure this thing out. And if you have any questions on what I’ve used to become a typographer myself, I would love to share those things with you. So I hope to see you guys next week.

 

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