Tonight I attended the private viewing for Lee Goater's new exhibition 'Faces - Anatomy of Autonomy', and I really enjoyed myself. The body of work focuses on simplistic graphic illustrations of peoples faces; it seemed to me as though his intentions were to illustrate human diversity through minimal dots and lines. I really liked that the project had an interactive element to it, above I've shown photographs of a table, where Lee had set up template stamps for people to try their own piece of work in his style. I've also since downloaded an iOS app of his, where you achieve a similar effect by swapping hairstyles, eyes, mouths etc.
I was actually lucky enough to meet and speak with Lee, and I asked him the one thing that was on my mind, which was what the typeface he used that was fluent throughout the body of work was. I'll be honest, I was convinced it was Avenir, but it was in fact Akzidenz Grotesk. One of the very first of the Swiss stlye Sans Serif type. He even explained to me why he preferred it to Helvetica; to put my mind at rest, I've responded with a little piece that questions the comparison between the classic Swiss Sans Serif Akzidenz Grotesk, and the more modern Avenir. Personally, they're both up there in my list of favourites.
