![]() The bold extended typeface seen on WALL♾’s front plate is Gunship, designed by Dan Zadorozny, one of the unsung heroes of modern sci-fi type design. It is therefore entirely appropriate as the separator in WALL♾, which is short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter ![]() Most relevantly, it’s used in Japanese to separate titles, names, and positions, as in “課長補佐 (Spaces weren’t invented until several centuries later.) The interpunct is still in use today-it’s the official decimal point in British currency (£9♹9), and is used to represent the dot product of two vectors in mathematics (x WALL♾’s front plate, clearly showing his interpunct.Īn interpunct is, of course, a vertically centered dot originally used to separate words in Latin and ancient Greek. His name is WALL♾, and that dot is an interpunct, not a hyphen or a bullet. Our hero’s name is not, as you might think, WALL-E. ![]() Please join me, then, for a detailed dive into the uniquely robotic future of a remarkably human film, as seen through the eyes of its eponymous hero, WALL♾.īefore we get started, there is an important detail we must clear up. From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL♾ is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism.
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