I watched the movie Helvetica last night and it reminded me of just how powerful a tool graphic design can be. It also highlighted the difference in perception. For example, the perception I have of Lufthansa’s logotype being iconic and classical combined with the disdain I have for American Airlines’ boring logotype seems odd now that I have discovered that they are both the same font – Helvetica. Even the company I work for uses Helvetica as a logotype. According to the movie, a lot of the sans-serif fonts we see in the world are actually this iconic giant of the typography world.   

Having said all that, I switched the fonts on this site to variants of Lucida Sans. I’m not restrained enough to use Helvetica responsibly and I certainly won’t be using the bastardized offshoot that is Arial.

I settled on Beautiful Day 2.0 by Arcsin as a theme, but I switched out the header image since the one that was in there was a little too fluffy for my taste. I might swap out the clouds for some planes too, but I haven’t made up my mind on that one yet.

As you can see to the right, I do still exist. I’m in the middle of something right now which should translate into an exciting change, so I’m going to try and combine that with updates of this site. I’m also trying to settle on a theme, but I haven’t really found one that jumps out at me immediately. I sort of like Colorvoid by Arcsin, but there are some other great themes on there too. I’ll probably switch out the header image once I’ve chosen something, just to add my own little touch.

Something was screwy in the database, so I took the Aliens approach, which was to take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It was, after all, the only way to be sure. Now it’s back up and running for the most part. I’ll examine it for further damage later on.