Barbara Knecht has posted a few times at Planetizen I liked the lead to her latest post:
“I have always thought that design can be a form of social activism,” says Don Meeker, environmental graphic designer and co-creator of “Clearview” typeface. This small but radical quotation was buried in an article from the 8.12.07 NY Times Sunday magazine on the redesign of highway sign typeface. Meeker, James Montalbano, and a team of collaborators understood that it was the design of highway signage that was contributing to highway fatalities. They applied an understanding of human psychology and function to the solution of a “civic issue.”
Radical idea. It’s called Universal Design. Or social activism.
For the full article see: http://www.planetizen.com/node/26507
For a discussion on Clearview see: http://typographica.org/000931.php
Posted by rollingrains at August 25, 2007 02:44 PM