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the typography nut in your life?

This is the type of art that's made for exchanging with your neighbors...

ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ

who *doesn't* have a typography nut in her life?

You AT bloggers really like your ugly, unoriginal, and uninspiring posters. I'm going to start counting how many articles per week have to do with posters. Try posting about art once in a while.

posters can be art. Many posters i know (and own a few) are made by artists of great scale. If you are interested - check especially polish poster art, Olbinski for example. It's a poetry, not just posters.

I dig it. It's funny.

Emily

as someone whose post graduate work was in -- in broad terms -- art history, I don't see how this wouldn't qualify as art.

That said, it is a one-joke poster, but it's a good one, and well executed.

I once had the pleasure of having drinks with friends and with typographer Matthew Carter. During the evening Mr. Carter commented that the "true value of a font comes from the more humble letters - the 'h's and the 'n's - not the seductive, flamboyant characters".

Give me a good Helvetica any day.

It's not that a poster can't be artful, it's just that so many like this are created and become the cheap t-shirt on your wall. Ha ha funny t-shirt, that's so cool, I have to get that and wear it all the time. The joke is old before laundry day, my god.

As a designer, I wholeheartedly disagree with the criticism [though accept that you don't have to like this, or any, poster]. Choosing to live with design you like is just like choosing to live with art you like. Anyhoodle, yes, this is a brilliantly executed one-liner. I love it!

I don't love it. But I do love the English language.