2011-05-28
post/5923521843
photo 08:03:00
Bruce Blackburn’s modernist playing cards for MoMA NY, 1972 (via Las cartas sobre la mesa).
2010-06-25
post/734659301
quote 15:14:49
“ The point of Helvetica is that it is neutral. It is extremely legible. It is not subject to cultural bias, regional variation, and the vicissitudes of fashion and corporate identity. It is designed, painstakingly designed, to create standardised signage. Standardisation might not be exactly sexy but it is extremely useful if you want to avoid the world being a confusing racket. “Uncompromising”, damn right it is. It is also international, part of the global language of airports, flight, travel - exactly the kind of spirit that this cloth-eared rebranding exercise apparently wants to tap into. ”
Will Wiles, in Air Rage, on Gatwick’s rebranding. He’s right: this is awful. The whole piece is worth a read.
2008-08-26
post/47474559
photo 16:09:00
I’m trying an experiment with fonts: disabling Arial to allow Helvetica to supersede it, despite all the CSS rules on the web that assume Windows (and hence shitty Helvetica rendering).
Also, I still love me some Monaco 9. More on that later, maybe.
