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I’m not trying to make the next helvetica or the next lexicon I’m out here trying to make the next Comic Sans—I want font infamy.
algorithm-defined fantasy girl
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algorithm-defined fantasy girl
@firstclassrice
(jaimey 정미 shapey) type designer + researcher
- can’t stop thinking about modernist tiramisu
- I think about this moment from rupauls drag race that aired on national television every goddamn day
- did jugend magazine have to go this hard I mean goddamn
- teenagers really have no fear nowadays if you told 16 year old me to film myself dancing and lip syncing to a song and upload it to the internet for all my peers to see I would’ve jumped into a volcano
- forever thinking about this 1983 knitting pattern book from Japan.
- what does it mean to be a “member of the design community” I am a victim of the design community
- Thinking about how Kendall Jenner has this James Turrell piece in the middle of her brightly lit contemporary ~rustic~ california home and the chaos of it haunts my mind
- The CIA flew Syngman Rhee, the south Korean president who massacred around 200,000 suspected civilian communists and sympathizers and said he’d throw all mix babies into the ocean if he could, to Hawai’i to live in exile as opposed to face justice for war crimes like
- also one my favorite things about being Korean is that we are all descendents of a bear woman who ate garlic, and some of y’all are still really on that vibe and I respect it
- I am once again refusing to shut the fuck up about Koloman Moser -> textile design drawings, 1890-1910.
- big studios hiring type design interns paying them $15/hr to make custom fonts that the agency then owns the IP to which could normally cost anywhere from $50,000-$100,000 and subsequently cheating interns out of $50,000-$100,000 is predatory behavior right
- “how’s work been, must be nice you get to be creative all day!!!”
- Thinkin about “Satan’s Tears, The Art of Alex Niño,” 1977.
