design

graphic design

language

nakedness

purity

typography

visibility

nationality

American

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

occupation / innovator as

graphic designer

is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

is an interface that allows itself to be ignored as the reader glides comfortably along literacy's habitual groove.

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

is a typically transparent interface which, when allowed to fail on occassion, makes itself evident in a way that can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

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