now that ∆1 has become ◭1.5

I have finally fulfill the generator from first week of making a 4 paged newspaper tabloid and I am excited to share it with people.

On the first page of the paper, I mimic the standard layout and the tone is purposedly comedic. that is why it says “Location, date and date of the week”. At the bottom of it, I tried to put a forecast that looks like weather forcast and horoscope at the same time. It is because the discussion about typefaces is more speculative. As a book I found in the CSM library: The Western Heritage of Type Design by R.S.Hutchings (1963) says that ” Typographers often justify their preference or prejudices at any given moment by means of aesthetic rationalisation.”

The second page focuses on the design discourse about Comic Sans. Since it was a centre topic of my research, I wanted to display the usage of Comic Sans being treated like a real social issue. With the body text in Wingding, the decorative font that was not meant for being typefaces, I wanted to present, as someone not from the disicpline, a lot of design concept is fairly new and I have difficulties in understanding.

At the bottom of the page, there is a crossword puzzle that perpetuate some “propaganda” about typography, for example “Modernists hate Serif”, “Comic Sans is a bad font” or at the bottom that says “if you cannot answer them correctly, you are not a good designer”. That is the kind of tone I had been getting from the meme account. I just emplified it into a more dramatic parody.

Page 3 is my favourite page. This is made like the kid’s edition acitivity book. Basically, putting the making of meme process to the readers. “Belittle anything you disagree with” is a strong accusation but I think it is fair. Because a photo of a white man being in a horribly messy room does not add anything to the context of graphic communication design discourse. It only so is to associate undesirable personality traits with other things like “Comic Sans is good”. Also, memes love Impact the typeface, and since this research is framing hard on typography, it is important to remind reader they need to use Impact, OR THEY ARE BAD DESIGNERS WHO DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TYPOGRAPHY.

The last page acts as an advertisment for the Swiss Styles. It feels like the shadow version of the meme page previously. Using a set of system in design discourse.

Look at how good they look when printed!