I have long complained about signage systems in Germany and the locals never believe me. I think this story backs up my claim:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6705323.stm
There’s always something fun — though sometimes plain wierd — and interesting to read on the BBC news website. Among the latest:
“Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men”
“Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat”
“Sudan’s famous […]
I seem to be unable to convince a fellow designer why I do not find bi-directional Arabic to be a helpful tool in teaching childen brought up in the States to read Arabic. So, for the sake of demonstration, I designed (in 10 minutes) a bi-di Latin in 2 weights. I could not manage the […]
More fun from the Latinised Arabic. This one is a gem!
(Why? The waw is too small; the serifs are all over the place; the Dal and Thal are structurally week; the serif on the Yeh is just hilarious and looks like the end of a vacuum cleaner!)
al_fadjr.pdf
Crossing over into the the western part of the Arab world, we have Al-Fadjr newspaper. It seems that the Algerians like their newspapers to have more color than what we are used to in Lebanon. I’ll show another Algerian paper tomorrow. Same thing. Am I being prejudiced here? There aren’t many newspapers that post pdf’s. […]
There’s a typographic equivalent of Mary Shelley’s creation. I took this photo in Dubai. It’s almost a joke, but is in fact very real. Another addition to the what-were-you-thinking section!
(I am especially fond of the Reh and the Alef; does the designer know that the Reh is never taller than the Alef?)
As to the way […]
Hmm. More on newspaper design with Al-Ayam newspaper from Yemen. This is from the what-were-you-thinking design section.
Fonts: The choice of typefaces , especially the headlines, makes this newspapers issue look like it was printed in the 70’s and that is not a complement. The thick horisontal baseline makes for a very solid base in which […]