"helvetica journal"

My older brother took Graphic Design as an A Level during which time his work focused largely on typography. I remember when he first discovered the font "Helvetica" and how beautiful he thought it was. It might sound silly to some but our family is intrigued by things like that. He showed me the differences between Helvetica and Arial; small but significant. The parallel lines used on certain letters, along with the perfect angles of others. As self-diagnosed perfectionists and individuals who find indulging in a little OCD behaviour fairly satisfying (in some areas - not including bedroom cleanliness), Helvetica is the perfect font. Anyway, enough rambling about pretty shapes. Helvetica is my favourite. (Amongst many other pretties.) 

I feel that, even if I found an extremely stimulating topic to blog about, this would eventually become another typical digital diary, and so I shan't attempt to avoid the inevitable outcome. This is an online journal. I will write about my everyday activities and odd imaginations. Some posts will be interesting. Others less so. I like the idea of record keeping, of having your feelings written down to read at a later date. A way of remembering past events that were seemingly unimportant at the time. I love to see the handwriting of different people (perhaps I should write a message and photograph it?), but the permanent nature of the internet is appealing to me. A couple of times now my phone has betrayed me and had an involuntary breakdown, resulting in the loss of all my photos, videos, notes, etc. My goodness it's awful. I wouldn't say I'm addicted to my phone (it broke about a week ago and I've had to live without it), but I find the thought of losing all these sentimental things really upsetting. For this reason, I'll try to regularly add photos and videos and random, unusual crap that is interesting to me - and possibly you (if there is anyone reading this).

This is a practise piece I photographed and edited for my A2 Photography exam.

I used Helvetica Italic for the text.