My favorite tweet (read: Twitter update) of recent weeks was Lane Becker’s Thursday: “Can you imagine? A federal government that took typography seriously?”

It so happens that Thursday morning I was walking through a Miami airport terminal after my identification and boarding pass were checked five times, and I paused at prints on the walls from the “Thoughts on Democracy” exhibition that opened this summer at the Wolfsonian Museum: sixty designers responded to Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” series.

Behold, serious typography in an airport (that, I would point out, is abbreviated MIA):

Read more in a summer exhibition review from UnderConsideration.com’s Speak Up and see more of the posters (curiously not included in the airport selections) in the NYT slideshow.

I found the posters’ emphasis on freedom from fear, especially in an airport setting, interesting and (dare I say it?) subversive–but then, I happen to think typography a nontrivial matter. You?

1. John Jackson:
   October 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am

   I thought of you when I saw this blog. Great pics of food. I hope you enjoy it: http://foodlibrarian.blogspot.com/

2. Kristen:
   October 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am

   Thanks, John, what a great food blog. I really like how she describes the actual successes and failures–and, I think she shares my great love for the kitchen torch. I’ve added it to the blogroll—

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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Saturday, October 11th, 2008, 8:04 pm * Filed in Art, Design, Typography. * Tags: democracy, kthread, Typography. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.