Typography Is Your Best Friend

Roberto Blake New York Graphic Designer Web Designer Illustrator Photographer

Typography Is Your Best Friend

24 June 2009 5 Comments

Roberto Blake | Typography | Graphics Design Is

Many designers, have and will continue to underestimate the amazing power and range of typography.
There are several reasons for this, but the reality is that typography is essential to a design skill set.
When stacked against photo-manipulation, digital painting, vexel artwork, and animation, the prospect of working with type, doesn’t sound all that exciting to most people.
Truthful, its because they don’t know any better.

All of the above mentioned techniques/skills can be incorporated into typography or used to balance it.
The range of design styles to which typography can be utilized is nearly unlimited, in fact there are very few designs that would not benefit from having typography introduced to them at some level.

So how can typography make me a better designer?
By getting used to the idea of conveying your message visually with type you can save yourself a lot of time creatively. The process for a design that uses a lot of photographic elements, or elements that are hand drawn, or digital illustrations is extensive. This does not even include the time it takes to develop inspiration or the process of experimentation. The work in editing and adjusting your images before you actually even start designing is very involved.

With type you can jump right into things without having to extract, adjust levels or curves, or work within alpha channels. The fact that if you’re working with Adobe Illustrator, all of your artwork is scalable and easy to reproduce, or move over to work with your other elements doesn’t hurt either.

Roberto Blake

Roberto Blake is a Professional Graphics Designer and Photographer, living in Fayetteville NC, has work been working with Photoshop® for over 8 years now, and Flash® for the past 5 years.

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5 Comments »

Derekp said:

I think i’ve seen this somewhere before…but it’s not bad at all

# 25 June 2009 at 1:42 am

Roberto Blake (author) said:

You may have seen it on other sites that I’ve posted it to.
This was an original piece I came up with for my 2009 portfolio.
The written portion was inspired by a conversation I was having with another designer on the subject.

# 25 June 2009 at 6:58 pm

phizle said:

I’m a designer myself in Niigeria and do lots of stuff too the fact you mentioned above is one major problem I’ve being trying to overcome for years and thanx for the enlightment. it’s realy a breakthrough glad I visit you website BLAKEZEE

# 14 August 2010 at 8:55 am

salman maavia said:

hey guys.
am a student of graphic design final year. i am designing a typeface for my thesis, can any typographer take a look at my process work and give me your feedback about it so that i can improve my work.
it will be a great favor for me.

# 14 June 2011 at 5:15 pm

Scott Renwick said:

Great poster, fancy doing some volunteer work for our page.

Get in touch.

# 15 November 2011 at 2:52 pm