The article that I chose was a Critique of Emigre's, Rant. The article set out to 'challenge today's young designers to develop a critical attitude toward their own work and design scene in general', focusing on a time period known as the Legibility Wars.
Dmitri begins his critique speaking about Typography and the time period where designers were pushing it to to the point of "experimental exhaustion", ignoring all of the guidelines that suggested "good typography". But what makes good typography and how does a designer create self-motivation to create good typography? Through the context. Dmitri goes on to speak of Shawn Wolfe's Rant, "What is my motivation?", in which Wolfe changed the "context" in which he worked by getting more involved to find love in his design again.
The rest of the articles focuses around the same idea and argument between legibility and creativity. People argue about the design in the sense that it could be a very contextual creation rather than a visually pleasing composition. The point is that graphic design is an open process and new criticism is always coming about, but we as designers have to realize this and the fact that it is also a 'conversation beyond the world of design'. These changes and creative developments shape the future of graphic design though it will follow very unexpected and reckless directions, but it is a sure sign of growth.
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