Derrick Segsby

Posted another forum thread on typophile.com to help with Emarosa's new myspace layout.

http://typophile.com/node/44973

I love the deco theme it has and for the movements in my own design (as I so amaturely guess them to be) being helvetica [hard and blocky], century gothic [open and light], rockwell/lubalin graph [strong yet styled], I predict a taste to incoporate the slab-serifs of graph with the curvature of century gothic. I feel that the indentified typeface 'Fino' by Maurice Schlesinger will accurately depict that.

I also had a quick read through my new copy of Dansk magazine and they predict positivity to be 'vogue'. For a deisng made in the seventies I can maybe see this typeface refelcting this also although for me it holds a deco age still. The fifties is still in rife thanks to it's revival from myspace turned burlesque females and such groups as the pipettes now streamlining into mainstream.

All in all I feel it is a welcome change. We are so unstructured in our lives nowadays with the dissolution of practically everything we hold or deem as discovery or revolution as soon as it is aired, that maybe a pastiché of the era of structure and smiling over the apocalypse of war (both then and now) would be a difference that would make lives better if not simply happier.

I personally feel it is a stepping stone into a revival of the consequence = responsibility seventies skipping the revolution of the sixties. We don't need (or maybe moreso are too egotistical or proud to admit that we do) revolution, we just small-man differences we can perform within our own lives.

Even more personally, I'm just sick of everything feeling like it's already been done.