Mexican Anyone? (Day 4)

Taco bell is strict. No shirt, No shoes, No Smoking, No service. Wait what? What if I ain't got no smokes on me? Can I still get me a chalupa?

Oh and no pictures, notice the manger swiftly approaching.

1st post

This is my first post on the blog. I would have done this sooner but I did not officially register for this class until Wednesday and did not have access until earlier today, so I apologize for the delay. Because I missed the first class I'm not entirely sure what we need to post on here.

Gem 4

I found this gem right here on our very own campus. In our library we have some pretty amazing books here about graphic design and type. Chip Kidd is a book designer and is a prime example of a master designer.

Artificially Weathered #4

So far in my collection of artificially weathered type i have charming trendy and rugged for their various descriptions of why such a typeface was used. Today I opened a periodical at the school, ya know SUU, its in cedar, so therefore has some significance towards a tour of cedar city typography (?), and it interestingly was a design magazine from several decades back. It all looked worn out as far as ideas go but in its time it was the cutting edge of contemporary typography. So it once demanded the respect of an idea for the future of design. Hard to say in one word but that's the explanation for the designers choice in type.

Metal Plate

I found this metal plate mounted in a brick memorial behind the Heritage Center parking garage. It serves as a historical marker for the original location of Ward Hall. The building was the first home of Southern Utah State College, before the Old Main building was completed in 1898.

I thought this example worked really well with the kind of historical type around town that I have been documenting. This example however doesn't really have the three-dimensionality that I admired about the previous examples. The gold, serif type seemed to be somehow printed on the plate, rather than engraved.

Anyway I still thought this was a cool example of type that is meant to last carrying on a story or legacy.

-Dan Gill

While trying to find the best way to express my theme, I found that sometimes Type makes its way into nature unintentionally. Someone, somewhere had pizza a while ago, but they forgot their receipt in a pile of leaves.

Day 4: Screaming notice me

This sign is up in a window at Taco Time, yet another small Mexican Restaurant in Cedar, and has a couple interesting things going on with it. There are three different font sizes and three different bright colors. The way this sign is designed screams notice me. It seems like Taco Time could have bought the sign back in the psychedelic break all rules period of the 1960's or 70's.