{"id":24817,"date":"2011-01-08T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2011-01-08T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:42:03","slug":"helvetica-nyc-subway-the-true-maybe-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24817","title":{"rendered":"Helvetica Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticasubway.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HelveticaSubway01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Legend has it that Helvetica came in and vanquished the competition. Paul Shaw shows that it didn\u2019t happen that way&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his new book, <em>Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story,<\/em> designer and historian Paul Shaw (below) takes a look at some Swiss type and the trains of the MTA.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-order your copy <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/eNr0UP\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (book drops March 11, 2011). Official site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticasubway.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Idsgn interview with Shaw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsgn.org\/posts\/design-discussions-paul-shaw-and-the-nyc-subway\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticasubway.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HelveticaSubway02.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticasubway.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HelveticaSubway03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticasubway.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HelveticaSubway04.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/delvew\" target=\"_blank\">Delve Withrington<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Helvetica Subway\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24817\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Legend has it that Helvetica came in and vanquished the competition. Paul Shaw shows that it didn\u2019t happen that way&#8217; In his new book, Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story, designer and historian Paul Shaw (below) takes a look at some Swiss type and the trains of the MTA. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,54,120],"tags":[121,58,98,122],"class_list":["post-24817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-design-history","category-typography","tag-design","tag-graphic-design","tag-swiss-international-style","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24817"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24856,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions\/24856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}