Skip to content
DesignInquiry
  • About
  • Projects/Programs
  • Participate
  • Contact

Fail Again

July 20–25, 2008, Vinalhaven, ME

All around us, people are making mistakes with typography. A multitude of typefaces is available to anyone with access to a computer and at the push of a few buttons you can change typesize, leading and spacing, stretch, distort and destroy old rules. Insults to typography are everywhere: The old arts are being redefined from scratch. More authors increasingly design their own text in which we also recognize how the pace of information—in magazines, on TV, the web, the mobile phone—has changed the way we read. We want to inquire how these design failures, these errors of typography, pacing and layout are evidence not of ignorance but progress.

Fail Again, 2008, Vinalhaven
By: DesignInquiry
DesignInquiry 2008: Fail Again. July 20-25, Vinalhaven, Maine All around us, people are making mistakes with typography. A multitude of typefaces is available to anyone with access to a computer and at the push of a few buttons you can change typesize, leading and spacing, stretch, distort and destroy old rules. Insults to typography are […]
From Scratch (edited from Fail Again)
By: Margo Halverson
Failings in Architecture, Pt. 1
By: Anita Cooney, Gabrielle Esperdy
Designed to Accommodate Change? Failed Systems of Change
By: Ann McDonald
Failure or Allure?
By: Laurie Churchman
DesignInquiry Personal Journal
By: Satoru Nihei
Unpacking Obscurity
By: David Shields
Typography in Flux
By: DesignInquiry
Book Outcome 2008
By: DesignInquiry
Neon Typography
By: Peter Hall
DesignInquiry 08 Slideshow
By: Margo Halverson
© DesignInquiry, 2023. All rights reserved.
DesignInquiry

DesignInquiry

  • About
  • Projects/Programs
  • Participate
  • Contact