Thoughts From the Dirty City » typography http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:51:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 More Treats from the Land of Stumble http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/more-treats-from-the-land-of-stumble/ http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/design/more-treats-from-the-land-of-stumble/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:47:51 +0000 admin http://www.dirtycitydesign.com/blog/?p=778 I love this quote and I like to think that the impossibly bad typography is intentional.
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…and it has gotten me to thinking about movies I haven’t watched in a long time that need to be revisited.
On the list so far:

The Burbs
Fight Club
The Never Ending Story
The Cube
28 Days Later
Heathers
Ferris Buellers Day Off
A Trip To Bountiful
Reality Bites

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At 80 minutes long, this little movie gives an insight not only to the nature of typography, but also how designers view type and the way typography transforms the everyday. A tall order for an independent documentary about a typeface designed in the 50′s.

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has a way of traversing the minutia of type as if it were a mountain, vast and a little bit dangerous. Interviews with master designers such as Massimo Vignelli (creator of the directional signs in New York’s subway system) and David Carson (author of many a design books) are interspersed with slides of signs, storefronts, products and government letterhead boasting Helvetica.

Esoteric, and passionate the interviews both praise and condemn the use of Helvetica. Some proclaiming it as a conceptual breakthrough, and symbol of globalization while others criticize it as being the lowest form of type and a symbol of conformity. Regardless of which side you lean to, anyone with any interest in design will gain something from watching Helvetica.

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