Counter Points
November 2024
Counter Points was a 2nd year university project aiming to learn what "good" and "bad" design was through the creation of two black and white typographic posters of an assigned quote.
In my case, I was assigned the Elon Musk quote "Civil war is inevitable", a response on X made regarding the August 2024 rioting in the UK due to the reactions to the Southport murders and consequences of uncontrolled mass-migration into the country.
For the "good" poster, I decided to lay the quote out similarly to a tweet/post, using GT America for its similarity to the X typeface "Chirp" - the attribution where the account would be, and details of the poster where the timestamp would be. This led to what we would consider "good" in the sense it was legible and visually recognisable for the context and content it was representing.
In contrast, for the "bad" poster, naturally the principles are inverse, where legibility, layout and typeface are actively working against a user for being understood. All that remains, in DASH, is a mess of angular shapes, legible only at a rotated orientation, if you could call it legible.
