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The life of a designer is a life of fight—fight against ugliness,” Massimo Vignelli said in the 2007 documentary Helvetica. It appears that this is one fight they may have lost.

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That mad italian would be fuming about this.

See the identity here.

Armin Vit weighs in here: The bigger tragedy in this redesign is the typography that accompanies the icon. It looks like an Adobe InDesign document that couldn’t load the fonts.”

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Date
January 17, 2013