As seen on the men's bathroom wall at Parsons School of Design: "Watch your Kerning". Only at a design school would you get someone correcting the graphic design aspects of graffiti.
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As seen on the men's bathroom wall at Parsons School of Design: "Watch your Kerning". Only at a design school would you get someone correcting the graphic design aspects of graffiti.
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Comments (8)
I think this might be one person going around using this same joke. In the 3rd Ave L train stop (Bklyn bound) someone wrote in the same handwriting, "You call that kerning?" (or something very similar) next to the titles on the movie poster for Alexander. The letters' serifs were touching.
Posted by Garrett | December 21, 2004 11:06 AM
Posted on December 21, 2004 11:06
Whoever wrote that probably has to wear girl repellant - all women love a man who corrects other's kerning.
Posted by Donnie | December 21, 2004 2:40 PM
Posted on December 21, 2004 14:40
Designers - Natural Born Perfectionists...
Posted by Amanda | December 21, 2004 5:33 PM
Posted on December 21, 2004 17:33
That is the funniest thing today, well this week. But then again week just started, and cristmas is up...
Posted by Daniel | December 22, 2004 2:36 PM
Posted on December 22, 2004 14:36
That's hilarious. The question is - were they being sarcastic (being in a design school and all) or were they being serious with the comment? I bet a little of both.
Posted by Blake | December 22, 2004 9:45 PM
Posted on December 22, 2004 21:45
I am the King of Type and I feel that society needs more of this kind of self-policing when it comes to typography. What will the generations of tomorrow think if they see "BITCH" simply scrawled on a bathroom stall with no attention to its subtle yet very impactful aesthetic sensibility?
Posted by Dr. Richard "King of Type" Zeed | December 23, 2004 7:33 AM
Posted on December 23, 2004 07:33
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . . . I think it's hysterical. But, I went to Parsons. Quality typography is indeed an issue everywhere. Oh how I want to write that myself so many times.
Posted by Pepper | December 25, 2004 2:11 PM
Posted on December 25, 2004 14:11
I actually find the spacing between the i and the t to be more offensive than between the t and the c. Interesting that they should bother to correct, but not point to the most egregious error.
Posted by Laura Shape | January 21, 2005 5:00 PM
Posted on January 21, 2005 17:00