Helvetica (film)

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Movie
Original title Helvetica
Country of production England
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 80 minutes
Rod
Director Gary Hustwit
production Gary Hustwit
Swiss Dots
Veer
camera Luke Geissbuhler
cut Shelby Siegel
Laura Weinberg

Helvetica is a documentary about typography and graphic design , told using the Helvetica font . In March 2007, the 50th anniversary film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The director is the independent filmmaker Gary Hustwit .

The film tells the story, distribution and application of the script. Here are interviews with famous designers and typographers as Erik Spiekermann , Hermann Zapf , Neville Brody , Massimo Vignelli and Stefan Sagmeister interspersed. The documentation aims to show how ubiquitous Helvetica is in our lives. The German premiere took place in 2007 at TYPO Berlin , the largest regular design conference in Europe.

A TV adaptation of the film was broadcast in England on BBC One in November 2007 . In the USA the documentation was broadcast on PBS in January 2009 .

In 2008 Helvetica was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and the Chlotrudis Award .

The film was released on DVD in November 2007 and is now also available on Blu-ray Disc .

See also

Objectified , Gary Hustwit's new industrial design film .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TYPO Berlin 2007 Music | Helvetica film. Retrieved April 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Film Independent Spirit Awards (2008). Retrieved April 3, 2019 .

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