{"id":505,"date":"2022-04-22T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/?p=505"},"modified":"2022-04-22T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:14:22","slug":"go-canada-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/2022\/04\/22\/go-canada-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Canada Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carl Dair was a Canadian graphic designer that was mostly self taught. He was well known for his use of typography. He made new visual design principles for typography that are still used today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12582\/2022\/04\/images-22.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-506\" width=\"279\" height=\"217\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He published the book &#8220;Design with Type&#8221; which he shared the use of &#8220;harmony and contrast codifying seven kinds of typographic contrast: size, weight, structure, form, texture, colour, and direction.&#8221; His book was the first canadian book to have won the Book of the Year Award by AIGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12582\/2022\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508\" width=\"289\" height=\"323\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dair created the canadian typeface &#8220;Cartie&#8221;. It was created for the 1967 centenary celebrations, but needed a revamp as there were some flaws in it as a typeface. He also created &#8220;7 Types of Typography Contrast&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work will forever leave a lasting legacy and influence for canadian design and designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQoYTrBgEwj_rZZPD1wlOwnmFN-rBVcbWip7Q&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"Design Tip - 7 types of typography contrast by bazen.talks on Dribbble\" width=\"293\" height=\"219\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Dair was a Canadian graphic designer that was mostly self taught. He was well known for his use of typography. He made new visual design principles for typography that are still used today. He published the book &#8220;Design with&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/2022\/04\/22\/go-canada-go\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12490,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[47,19,20],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-47","tag-blog","tag-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tannermcmahon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}