(this is the post in question)
Perhaps i’m quite old school, but good typography is one of the most beautiful gifts that graphic design and printmaking has given us. Typography should have a grace and elegance towards it, deftly being used with consideration and with purpose, to ultimately communicate and to be a lynchpin within a well designed layout.
This example bludgeons you over the head with its clunkiness and ineptitude. The idea and concept is sound, but it is in its execution where it falls apart. The typographic letterforms dont actually make the landmass correctly, the slapdash use of spacing, the trying to make an idea fit, but not taking the time to execute it in a sympathetic manner, it all just jarrs with me, and indicative of the way some designers just throw typography together in a semi-inventive way because it is popular to the masses.
You know what else is popular? Justin Bieber.
