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Old 17th March 2015, 04:10 AM
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Originally Posted by truehappiness View Post
The way FIVE is designed, it's H<3PE.

As of right now, FIVE is the only logo she's had a hand in designing. It had to do with LOVE&HOPE post-tsunami. IMO, this is probably the most ignorant post you've made here...
I recognize that the TEXT on the cover is somehow supposed to look like the word "hope," but I don't believe for a second that she conceived the title "FIVE" with the MEANING of "hope" remotely in mind. At all. Like, I remember there even being an interview where she said she didn't know what to call it and Leslie Kee suggested "FIVE" literally because there were five tracks.

There was no magical symbolism behind the word until the typography/logo design came into play. Just because the title text can spell out "HOPE" if you look really closely doesn't mean the title is meaningful or that its "meaning" is any less an afterthought.

I'm not ignorant of the story behind the title. I just don't buy it.
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