{"id":4800,"date":"2021-02-07T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:11:23","slug":"on-the-letterform-of-the-age-by-bo-won-keum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"On the Letterform of the Age by Bo-Won Keum!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canopycanopycanopy.com\/issues\/26\/contents\/on-the-letterform-of-the-age\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1536x802.png 1536w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2048x1069.png 2048w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-600x313.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure id=\"m_-1060899569590589331bodyTable\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Who gets to set the standards for communication, and why? Bo-Won Keum, Triple Canopy\u2019s associate designer, addresses this question in \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/canopycanopycanopy.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=727ef102b7d6e5836b46aeca4&amp;id=f5cb448114&amp;e=0a90bd24b8\" target=\"_blank\">On the Letterform of the Age<\/a>,\u201d an essay on the role of the designer in shaping how people make meaning out of language. In considering the current state of design, Keum revisits the work of Bauhaus designers who advocated for the transformation of typography in response to the rise of the typewriter and printing press, as well as dramatic changes in the habits of readers. \u201cThe efforts by Bauhaus masters to update and standardize type for the machine age prefigured current discussions about the form and function of design in the digital age,\u201d Keum writes, \u201cand the need for typography to adapt to various surfaces, formats, and operating systems.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who gets to set the standards for communication, and why? Bo-Won Keum, Triple Canopy\u2019s associate designer, addresses this question in \u201cOn the Letterform of the Age,\u201d an essay on the role of the designer in shaping how people make meaning out of language. In considering the current state of design, Keum revisits the work of &#8230; <a title=\"On the Letterform of the Age by Bo-Won Keum!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=4800\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Letterform of the Age by Bo-Won Keum!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}