Archive for 'Editorial' Category

Useful vs. Valuable as an Employee

As a Graphic Designer, one is hired because his/her education and skills are useful to company to perform job duties. However with hard economic times, jobs are not as secure which means being not only useful, but a valuable asset can help to prevent your position from reaching the chopping block of layoffs and even [...]

“Bad” Fonts

Recently in conversation, a few of the YDG contributing writers broached the topic of “Bad” fonts. In college, we felt (others may agree) an attitude was fostered that some fonts were inferior to others. The “Classics” such as Futura, Helvetica, Univers and Garamond, to name a few, were considered THE fonts. I agree the aforementioned [...]

Faith, Psychology & Typography

My sister is getting her Master Degree in Psychology.  Part of her schooling is writing papers analyzing her life, surroundings, culture and family. She recently asked me to talk about my religious beliefs, specifically the subject of leaving the religion I was brought up in after going to a private religious school.  The bottom line [...]