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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

One of the best (albeit one-sided) illustrations of how a designer might approach type differently than an artist is a 2009 essay by David Reinfurt (who used to make up one-half of Dexter Sinister) titled “Adam, Why Arial?” . “A Translation from one language to another,” Lawrence Weiner, 1996. How much of life is coping?”

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