October 2006
Showcasing Emerging Talent: CLICK 06!
I have been kindly asked to help out on the judging panel for YCN’s Click 06 (sponsored by Getty Images), an initiative to showcase and reward the best emerging creative talent in digital and interactive communication. This year 10 new creatives have made the shortlist - covering the UK, USA and Brazil.
This sort of thing is great exposure for talented people with interesting ideas - so head on over there and show your support.
Designers Have No Sense of Humor
Many designers know that they have arrived at the far-reaches of geekyness when they find typography jokes funny (A font walks into a bar, and the bartender says, “We don’t serve your type here.”). It must be the mixture of long hours, paper sniffing or sitting too close to the computer screen that begins to skew our judgement.
It is for this reason that the upcoming ‘Kern Up The Volume!’ typography and design lecture gets FRONT’s full support. Not only because of the clever typographical pun in it’s title - but because one of the world’s most respected living typographers Erik Speikermann will be speaking.
It should be a good seminar, take our word for it… we’re a good judge of character [sigh].
See you there!
