It all started looking for coffee roasters in Geneva near the train station. I found a bunch of options including Greenwheel Coffee and while looking through their photos, I found this gem of a t-shirt:
We never actually made it to a roaster in Geneva – instead we stopped during a connection in Bern. But I thought about that shirt for a long time and wanted to find one when we got home.
No luck finding one for sale, and in efforts to recreate it, it felt right to learn more about the original “thing&thing&thing” shirt design.
In 2001, Experimental Jetset designed the ‘John & Paul & Ringo & George’ t-shirt for Japanese label 2K/Gingham. Full details here
It’s unclear if the “correct” typeface is Helvetica (the design was featured in Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface, after all) or Helvetica Neue Heavy (as described in correspondence posted on fontsinuse.com)
I went with Helvetica Neue Heavy and put together this design – now available for sale on Spreadshirt
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