September 2010
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Fringe Typography the Third
The third installment of my series on irritating, plastic-Helvetica-stuffed establishing shots from Fringe. This time: season three première “Olivia”. To keep viewers on their toes the producers have mixed it up a little this time with some delightful non-Helvetica.
1985, in Helvetica, on some steampunk-looking screen…
…which is immediately followed up with Arial. Nothing endears you to a...
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Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen →
The photos alone make this worth reading.
All these hipster idiots fetishising the typewriter are, as usual, missing the fucking point. They’re not “a decorative conversation piece” — they’re a tool for getting something done. Granted, it’s hard to separate the nostalgia from the design from the actual function of the thing (it gets a little messy sometimes), but ultimately, they’re for...
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