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20080501

Not so, current affair

What happens one day if someone took news and made them aesthetically pleasing? Wouldn't that be good since it would make like a 100 more people want to read it better?

That is completely impossible. And we all know that it is due to the timespan given to churn out tomorrow's papers. Copyrighters, editors and etc cannot afford to wait for designers to get anal about space and form. The appeal of the newspapers goes as far as its functions - its layout for legibility, illustrations and photography for clear cut communication of the event to its most accurate level. There is no time to source for abstract pieces and fuss about expressive typography in the world where today's news becomes tomorrow's trash, tomorrow's news enters our lives.

Sure, one can argue that there are insane designers out there who are able design faster than you can say newspapers. Another reason would be due to a sense of awareness and passiveness towards the current event that newspapers are not over-designed or designed at all. Picture this, an article on the Tsunami or 9/11 flooded with in your face typography. The papers would eventually end up seeming superficial and unreliable. These are people who's lives are dramatically changed and there you are, um, beautifying the layout about their missing family members? This is one such case where typography is a tool and not meaning itself. The type assist the content, not enhance it. Even though we design for a living (soon), we should always be purpose driven.

That said, despite having reasoned it all out, i still find myself incapable of picking up that pile of grey delivered straight to my doorstep daily, let alone read it. I just cant be bothered and that is something no amount of graphic design can change.




However, the same cannot be said for Newwork Magazine. Even if its for 40gsm paper printed in black and white, even if its 13.99USD. Customized typefaces, large format extremely light-weighted papers that you can glue to your wall.

Yes news papers can be flexible like that.

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steph wrote at 12:13 pm