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Battlestar Helvetica

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Thomas Phinney

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Check out this short (33-​second) clip from YouTube.

My colleague Si Daniels at Microsoft actually had a Battlestar Helvetica t-​shirt made a year and a half ago, about 40 copies or something like that. But I think the video is brand new.

Yes, those promised survey results are in the works. I’m 95% done, but I have jaw surgery tomorrow, so it may be several more days.

ADDENDUM: My assumption is that the video maker might have seen or heard of Si’s shirts, but that they the video was probably not done by Si or his immediate colleagues. The MS folks did a nicer job on the logo than the one seen at the end of the video.

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One response to “Battlestar Helvetica”

  1. JimK

    Hey, I have one of those shirts! Looking at it, I think that they’re different beasts. The shirt that Si’s team designed has a much more distressed look of the typography.

    [You’re quite right. I didn’t mean to imply a connection, but I could have been more clear. (I wrote that in quite a hurry, up late the night before today’s jaw surgery.) My assumption is that the video maker might have seen or heard of Si’s shirts, but that they the video was probably not done by Si or his immediate colleagues. They did a nicer job on the logo that the one in the video. I think I’ll update my post. – T]

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