Comments on: Battlestar Helvetica http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/03/battlestar-helvetica/ the Phinney-us Blog on Typography & Text Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: JimK http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/03/battlestar-helvetica/comment-page-1/#comment-177 JimK Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:13:17 +0000 http://www.thomasphinney.com/?p=309#comment-177 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. <i>[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]</i> 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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