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Typographic quote - meanings
Posted by msk14x in
22 Oct 2010 — 8:30am
22 Oct 2010 — 8:30am
I've been looking at typographic quotes, some from the forums on here, and just wondered if anyone could expand on the meaning of the one that attracted me the most?
"Helvetica is the typeface for a deserted island" - Friedrich Friedl
I'm asking just so I can get my head around the understanding of the quote, would be great if anyone could emphasise the meaning of this to me!
Thanks
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22 Oct 2010 — 9:30am
It’s a clever quote and works on two levels:
1. Friedl compliments Helvetica by suggesting that if one were to be cast away on a desert island (à la the BBC’s Desert Island Discs program) and could choose only one typeface, Helvetica would be the one; and
2. Friedl also hints that Helvetica itself should be banished to a desert island.
That’s the way I interpret the quote. I could be making s*** up in my head. It happens.
22 Oct 2010 — 1:46pm
Close. Friedl was actually commenting on the opening typography for the TV show Lost.
23 Oct 2010 — 4:00am
The participants of our letterpress workshop thought that Helvetia was the island:
Source: jpetri.de | Making-of: Flickr
25 Oct 2010 — 8:18am
on a deserted island, no one can hear you scream.
-bowerbird
25 Oct 2010 — 8:34am
But if you scream and nobody's there to hear it, does it sound like Helvetica?