Liz From St. Louis

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I can barely contain my excitement as I will be attending the Chip Kidd lecture and book signing, presented by the St. Louis AIGA chapter, tomorrow evening. CAN’T WAIT!

Photos and full review to follow…

It’s no secret that I am a font snob, and any designer worth their salt has their own preferences. It’s a general rule that you can categorize a designer by said preferences. “Oh, get a load of Mr. Helvetica over there, thinks he’s so hip! Papyrus, well you must be trying to advertise a tasteless new restaurant! Comic Sans?! Toss that portfolio straight in the trash!” And I play into it just like everyone else.

Snobbery aside, the simple fact of the matter is that you’ve got to have the right tools for the job and I’ve been a baker without flour, a carpenter without a hammer, a painter without a brush… a designer without fonts.

CS3 will get you nowhere if you’ve got a meager 15 or so typefaces on your machine, so while there was a bit of sticker shock over Adobe’s FontFolio 11 it finally arrived for me this morning here at work and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

My own personal machine boasts about 300 or so typefaces, which is decent I suppose, but having FontFolio for my work machine feels like a whole new planet has been discovered. There’s so many to choose from that I’m sure I’ll be exploring and sampling my many options for a long time to come, oh Type Reference Guide I love you! Look how lovely all these typefaces are… I’m gushing.

The moment a text & typeface are chosen, two streams of thought, two rhythmical systems, two sets of habits, or if you like, two personalities, intersect.

In non-type related news, I think that my resolve to speak my mind about things has already found me in an ‘argument’ of sorts. I’m none too fussed, the Liz who doesn’t worry about other people’s opinion of her is back in full effect and subsequently I feel empowered.

I finally broke down and bought season 1 of The Tudors on DVD and have only gotten through the first episode. (Yes, yes… I watched them all when they originally aired but that was months ago and after reading The Other Boleyn Girl I wanted to watch it again). Season 2 begins the 30th of this month but I don’t have Showtime, though I did watch the first episode of the season on PinkIsTheNewBlog and whoa, let’s talk about getting back into the drama! Sure, I know what’s going to happen but the stellar cast along with the costumes and perfect way in which history is punched up with all of the drama you’d expect… it’s really a captivating show… Jonathan Rhys Meyers aids in the appeal as well
Despite the Drama Llama rearing its ugly head, I’m having a good day.

A few thoughts to expand upon
- Pier 1 Card – good idea or disaster waiting to happen?
- Politics and being jaded on the hype – enough Obama already!
- Gym Class Heroes & Hall and Oats – genius or just trying to be?
- Chipotle’s guacamole – I seriously think it contains crack.