这是一部关于字体, 设计, 视觉…的记录片. Trollback +公司为 Helvetica 制作的纪录片, 为纪念 Helvetica 成立50周年所做. 将会在07年首播! 不知道什么时候出碟, 只能先在官网上看些片段解馋了.
Presents: Trollback +
CD: Jakob Trollback
Designer: Tolga Yildiz, Emre Veryeri
Produce: Tandi Rabinowitz
EP: Aimee Przybylski
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will screen at film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide, followed by the DVD release this fall. More about the film…
Helvetica screening tour underway – After a sold-out World Premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival, the global screening tour for Helvetica has begun. Check out the preliminary schedule, which will include over 100 special event screenings worldwide this year, more added every week.
Helvetica turns 50 – Pictures from the Helvetica50 event at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, the European Premiere of Helvetica, and the blowout after-party at the Freitag factory.
In the media – Director Gary Hustwit on CNN International; the International Herald Tribune on Helvetica’s 50th, Kobi Benezri and Cliff Kuang interview Gary in the new issue of I.D. Magazine; Steven Heller interviews Gary about the film for AIGA Voice.
这里还有个 Helvetica 对决 Arial 的 Flash 小游戏!
http://www.engagestudio.com/helvetica/
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
Adrian Frutiger
Helvetica: Sex without love. The lack of volition is pure denial. You can do whatever you want with Helvetica. There is neither resistance nor agreement – just still water with a smooth surface, perfectly mirroring the lover of the moment.
Clemens Schedler
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
Wolfgang Weingart
Helvetica is the perfume of the city.
Lars Müller
To claim that Helvetica has no character is a malicious lie.
Ralph Schraivogel
It’s like running into an old girl friend and being surprised at how attractive and sophisticated she still is.
Tobias Keller
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it.
I like the VW beetle, too, although I’ve never driven one.
Stefan Sagmeister
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Helvetica was not a typeface, it was a lifestyle.
Michael Vanderbyl
I have never designed a logotype without first trying it in Helvetica. It is still the most versatile, classic and readable of all typefaces.
Steff Geissbuhler
Wouldn’t it be interesting if there were only one typeface in the world? Designers would really have to think about the ideas behind their designs instead of covering them up with fancy typefaces. One universal typeface would really strip away all the flashy emptiness in design. And, of course, that one typeface would have to be Helvetica.
Erik Kessels, KesselsKramer
… Still fresh, still popular: Helvetica is king!
Alexander Gelman
We hate to like Helvetica.
Hamish Muir
Some years ago a young intern in our New York office, when looking at an old map where Switzerland was named Helvetia, said, “Fancy naming a country after a typeface.”
Colin Forbes
helvetica to me is a bit like pasta. basta.
cornel windlin
Helvetica, universal typeface like fresh air or clear water in our everyday lives.
Shin Matsunaga
Helvetica. The cream on the pie.
Fernando Medina
Helvetica is like a good screwdriver; a reliable, efficient, easy-to-use tool. But put it in the wrong hands and it’s potentially lethal.
Tom Geismar
Helvetica is to typeface as Toblerone is to chocolate.
Alan Fletcher
In a way, The Beatles are the Helvetica of pop; just like Helvetica is The Beatles of typefaces.
experimental jetset
I always had an intense love-hate relationship with the right leg of the capital “R.”
Christoph Niemann
if you have no intuitive sense of design,
then call yourself an “information architect”
and only use helvetica.
david carson
Helvetica: never liked it, never used it.
Willi Kunz
I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, “because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text”
Kyle Cooper
for me, this typeface does not even exist.
helmut schmid
Helvetica: Quite frankly, I never liked it that much: too homogenized, too pretty… Univers and Akzidenz Grotesk both have more character.
Fritz Gottschalk
Helvetica: Faceless.
Alan Kitching
Helvetica. What else is there?
Dana Arnett
Helvetica – the epitome of ugliness.
Wolfgang Weingart
Making a statement with an expressive typeface takes more courage and craftsmanship than taking the apathetic path of least resistance with Helvetica.
Erik Spiekermann
The Helvetica Medium lower case “a” in the original foundry and linotype is the most beautiful two dimensional form ever designed.. / Katherine McCoy
It amazes me how many people have an opinion about Helvetica who couldn’t pick it out of a type lineup if their reputation depended on it / Douglas Wadden
