Helvetica Cafe?

hello, my friend perri just txt’d me this pic she snapped:

Helvetica Cafe in Melbourne, Australia

it’s a cafe in melbourne called ‘helvetica cafe’. that is pretty sweet if you ask me… but is does beg the question, did they name the cafe after the typeface, or choose the font after the name?

this cafe has been mentioned before on the helvetica film blog.

(btw if you have not seen the film ‘helvetica’ you really should. check it out here)

this kind of thing has happened before, there is a good flickr set about it here and it’s been dubbed LTypI or Lack of Typographic Imagination.

thanks for listening.

cheers

- sye