Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Apr 2012 02:56 UTC
"Sir Jonathan Ive has been crowned British Visionary Innovator in a competition, run by the Intellectual Property Office. Ive won by a large margin with almost fifty per cent of the vote (46.6%). In second place was Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the world wide web) with 18.8 per cent of the vote. James Goodfellow OBE (the inventor of PIN technology and the cash machine) was in third place with 15.2 per cent of the vote." Alan Turing was also nominated. If you ever needed an illustration of everything that's wrong with the technology industry today, it's this. Guy who designs the exterior of mass-market gadgets wins over guys who actually really contributed to technology. Telling.
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I don't think that actually, I think you may be responding to a point I did not make. "
Oh but you did make and you continue to make it, because you are using it as an argument to support the notion that Jonathan Ives deserved the award more than Berners-Lee and Turing.
Sorry, but my life is too fulfilling already for a typeface to be worth anything. And that says a lot, given that I'm an atheist with no purpose in life
I personally can't tell the difference between Helvetica and Arial or other popular sans-serif fonts and don't care to. I doubt most people can (or care) either.
I can sink this self-importance with one single question: how significantly has the Helvetica typeface impacted Chinese or Indian culture?