Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography

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The design profession doesn’t produce many larger-than-life figures. Robert Brownjohn-BJ, to just about everyone who knew him, and everyone did-was one. His gifts were immense, as were his appetites. Enfant terrible and visionary, he was both. Mick and the Stones wanted to hang with him. Of course it couldn’t last. Robert Brownjohn was simply too big for this world. He died in 1970 at the age of 45, a victim of his own excesses. Today, he is best remembered for his … More >>

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If you like computer design and you think you have what it takes to persuade and influence consumers, maybe it’s time to look into advertising design schools. The field of advertising has been evolving for hundreds of years (especially in the last century) to become the precise science that it is today. Training in advertising design can help you get up to speed on the latest methods of introducing buyers to new and established products, and getting them to make that all-important purchase.

Advertising design courses offer the basics of marketing and sales, public relations, advertising, and good graphic design. Students will learn skills of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and become familiar with related software, such as InDesign, Corel Draw, PhotoShop, QuarkXpress, and many others. Most graphic design training today will also introduce students to the world of e-commerce, with courses in website design and development, and e-business. Students can obtain Associate, Bachelor, and Master degrees in Computer Arts and New Media, Digital Arts and Communications, Interactive Media Design, Digital Media Production, Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, and many others.

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For designers, non-designers, and desktop publishers. Fine typography is timeless; typesetting technology may change, but there is only so much a good computer program can do. Using type creatively has more to do with aesthetics and common sense than it does with how the type is set, who sets it, or how much it costs. For guidance we can no longer look to the professional typographer for help; we are now the typographers.

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