Good / Bad History
Editorial Design, Lettering
Instructor: Peter Ahlberg
School of Visual Arts, 2024
Credit
Photography by XiaoPeng Zhan
Art Direction by Alan Chen
Image Editing by Alan Chen
Good / Bad History
“Good Design Bad Design” is an article written by design masters, Tibor Kalman, J. Abbott Miller, and Karrie Jacobs.
The challenge of this project was to condense 5,000 words and numerous footnotes into just four tabloid-sized pages. The primary design opportunity emerged in the inner spread, where I broke the centerline to create a bold, oversized typographic composition as the focal point of the article.
This project explores the contrast and elegance of the original typeface, Caroline Hairline, transforming its delicate strokes into bold, expressive lettering as the main visual. The body text follows the same diagonal flow of the italic typeface, creating a cohesive and dynamic typographic composition.
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