Watching Helvetica

Helvetica the documentary.

So nice to slip back into design and pay attention to every single detail around you until you are blue in the face.

The thoughts that have entered my mind so far. They talk about how all companies in the sixties transitioned to Helvetica from a huge mish mash of other things, and things just became simple, but dictorial? And erasure of all past mass confusion of beauty of all people of life and their ideas, to a white washed thing? There are positives and negatives. On the one hand the world has become to complex and complicated and you need simplification to continue to function. It's time for us to chose the best option from all the options and drop the rest and move forward. On the other hand variety is one of the keys to life. Eating the right things, the best things from all cultures is important to your diet. But variety in your diet is also so important. I think you get my drift.

And the other comment that they made that everything that comes after is secondary. That is possible, you can't get much simpler than the most simple, so the only place you can go from there is more complex, and of course only for the better because the most simple has already been created which you can always fall back. I like where where we are right now as humanity which sometimes so and sometime not is: cautiously growing complex.