Sadly, in my experience as a junior designer, most companies don’t want you to be as creative as possible. They’re run by old suits set in their ways and want you to only mimic their out-of-date competition.
Nice portfolio though, love the classic style and color choices :)
and it uses Helvetica classic. Lauded in Gary Huswitz’s doc as either so blank it was beautiful or that it was a representation of a communistic nazi regime of cloning condensed into a font hence uncreative!
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That’s why I used Helvetica… Sorry, Frank!
Aug 3rd, 2009 / 2:48 pm
Thanks for this tip. I visited his website, and also really like his State series. Can’t wait till he completes all 50.
Aug 3rd, 2009 / 8:26 pm
hehe, that’s cute!
Aug 4th, 2009 / 1:48 am
Sadly, in my experience as a junior designer, most companies don’t want you to be as creative as possible. They’re run by old suits set in their ways and want you to only mimic their out-of-date competition.
Nice portfolio though, love the classic style and color choices :)
Aug 4th, 2009 / 11:03 am
A client can signal handily destroy creativity. Rant text follows here
Aug 4th, 2009 / 12:42 pm
one of my colleague and I played with this poster… We are both webdesigner working in an office full of deveoppers ;p
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ath/2763493442/
Aug 4th, 2009 / 4:31 pm
and it uses Helvetica classic. Lauded in Gary Huswitz’s doc as either so blank it was beautiful or that it was a representation of a communistic nazi regime of cloning condensed into a font hence uncreative!
Aug 5th, 2009 / 4:58 pm
Frank’s work is great.
Aug 5th, 2009 / 7:02 pm
Well said and Well put.
Aug 6th, 2009 / 11:10 am