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Helvetica

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About Me


Helvetica is a new feature-length documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, psychology, and communication, and invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Check the screening schedule for upcoming events worldwide, more added every week.
Order the DVD now .
Watch a few clips from the film here.
For more info, stills, t-shirts, and limited edition film prints, go to http://www.helveticafilm.com

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My Interests

Clean, functional, graphic design. The International Style. Grids. Late Modernism.

I'd like to meet:

Graphic design lovers, font geeks, and sans-serif swingers.

Music:

Sam Prekop, Kim Hiorthøy, Four Tet, Battles, El Ten Eleven, Caribou, The Album Leaf, Chicago Underground Quartet, Motohiro Nakashima

Books:

Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface by Lars Müller, Swiss Graphic Design by Richard Hollis

Heroes:

Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann, Michael Bierut, Matthew Carter, Wim Crouwel, Experimental Jetset, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler, Pierre Miedinger, Lars Müller, Norm, Michael C. Place, Rick Poynor, Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Spiekermann, Massimo Vignelli, Hermann Zapf, Neville Brody