22.4.08

rocking in red and helvetica

ha! from this to this:





from boingboing, via gemma jones







PS: she sees red is on skeleton blogging timetable, in this last week before install. sorry.

2 comments:

Robert said...

I watched the Helvetica doco last weekend and I heard an old Italian designer say the reason he liked it is because it needed lots of space to look good - and in this world of clutter, what Helvetica did was try and make the World less ugly.

I know it's the beige Volvo of fonts but I loved that perspective.

That's it, just wanted to share.

lauren said...

thanks for sharing, rob. :)

i loved that doco. mario(?) vignelli - the italian designer in NY - he was great!

i know that helvetica is the over-used, bastardised, lazymans font that it is, but it's still a lovely classic in my book. [and i'm hoping that red is lovely and classic too.]