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Helvetica / a Swiss Dots production ; in association with Veer ; a film by Gary Hustwit ; produced and directed by Gary Hustwit.
Annenberg Circulation Desk DVD Z246 .H4542 2007
Available
LIBRA DVD 013 181
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic arts.
- Typographers.
- Sans serif type.
- Type and type-founding.
- Type and type-founding--Design.
- Type and type-founding--Digital techniques.
- Type and type-founding--History--20th century.
- History.
- Type and type-founding--Switzerland--20th century.
- Typographers--Germany.
- Typographers--Great Britain.
- Typographers--Netherlands.
- Typographers--United States.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Visual communication.
- Design.
- United States.
- Netherlands.
- Great Britain.
- Germany.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (80 mins.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Swiss Dots Limited ; Brooklyn, NY : Distributed by Plexifilm, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English with optional subtitles in English or German.
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A documentary about a typeface? When said typeface is a ubiquitous piece of graphic design, yes. Helvetica--a sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 at the Haas Foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland--has partisans and detractors, a great number of them graphic designers and theorists, who express their opinions on the famous font. It is seen as neutral and efficient, concise yet inexpressive, purposeful yet not caustic, utilitarian and unembellished, or as frustratingly familiar, perfectly subliminal, or as the typeface of socialism. From storefronts, street signs, product packaging, government forms, and advertisements, it is almost guaranteed that after viewing, you will be scanning the world examining Helvetica's continuing impact.
- Contents:
- Opening (with Manfred Schulz)
- Massimo Vignelli
- Graphic design in the 1950s
- Amsterdam & Wim Crouwel
- Matthew Carter
- Helvetica story
- Linotype
- Widgco
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Berlin & Erik Spiekermann
- Type's "secret spell"
- Lars Müller
- Paula Scher
- Stefan Sagmeister
- David Carson
- Experimental Jetset
- Michael C. Place
- Norm
- Democratization
- What we have now.
- Participant:
- Manfred Schulz, Massimo Vignelli, Rick Poynor, Wim Crouwel, Alfred Hoffmann, Mike Parker, Otmar Hoefer, Bruno Steinert, Hermann Zapf, Michael Bierut, Leslie Savan, Tobias Frere-Jones, Jonathan Hoefler, Erik Spiekermann, Neville Brody, Lars Müller, Paula Scher, Stefan Sagmeister, Experimental Jetset, Michael C. Place, Norm.
- Credits:
- Editor, Shelby Siegel ; director of photography, Luke Geissbühler.
- Notes:
- Aspect ratio 1.78:1.
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2007.
- Special features: Massimo Vignelli -- Wim Crouwel -- Matthew Carter -- Mike Parker -- Otmar Hoefer & Bruno Steinert -- Hermann Zapf -- Hoefler & Frere-Jones -- Erik Spiekermann -- Neville Brody -- Michael Bierut -- Paula Scher -- Stefan Sagmeister -- David Carson -- Experimental Jetset -- Michael C. Place -- Norm -- Rick Poyner (95 minutes).
- OCLC:
- 184841541
- Publisher Number:
- 082354004224
- 031 Plexifilm
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